Don't know what it will be like but a heads up for Life Of A Mountain - A Year On Helvellyn tomorrow night on BBC 4 at 9pm
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"...as dry as the Atacama desert".
I don't get this Tom Moore thing.
The BBC are all over it again, I've even had to turn BBC Radio Derby off.
The truth is that his pushy family and a virtue signalling BBC have just gone overboard. He obviously had an ego and always wanted to be "on the telly" hence his appearance on Blankety Blank all those years ago.
A number 1 record (what a fantastic contribution to music that was), a book, a knighthood, an RAF flypast and the Union Flag at half mast on Downing Street. And a load of past it celebs coming out of the woodwork for a bit of publicity on the back of him.
Why not go the whole hog and have a State Funeral for him.
We are living in very strange times.
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I don't hold anything whatsoever against him as a person, after all he was 100, do we really know how aware he was of the actual publicity... and who wouldn't jet off to the Caribbean given the chance...
However in relation to your points above, i think the fact that his daughter works (allegedly) in "brand development" is quite telling.
Not since the days of Princess Diana have the media generated such hysteria over any one person!
Both Princess Diana and Captain Tom had their flaws (like all of us) but were basically well-intentioned people. I don't share your cynicism about his character, Llani Boy, but I do agree that the fuss being made around him is ridiculous.
In his lifetime he suffered from unreality, as do so many Englishmen.
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