Sir Patrick Moore has offered some views on the impact of women in previously male dominated areas of life.
QUOTE British TV standards are deteriorating because the BBC is "run by women", astronomer Sir Patrick Moore has said.
The Sky at Night host also described female newsreaders as "jokey" and called for separate channels to cater for the needs of the different sexes.
"I think it may eventually happen," the 84-year-old told the Radio Times.
A BBC spokesman described Sir Patrick as being one of TV's best-loved figures and said his "forthright" views were "what we all love about him".
The presenter said: "The trouble is the BBC now is run by women and it shows soap operas, cooking, quizzes, kitchen-sink plays. You wouldn't have had that in the golden days."
Sir Patrick Moore said
"I used to watch Doctor Who and Star Trek, but they went PC - making women commanders, that kind of thing. I stopped watching"
"I would like to see two independent wavelengths - one controlled by women, and one for us, controlled by men."
He claimed that interesting programmes were screened too late at night, and said he would "rather be dead in a ditch" than appear on Celebrity Big Brother. And asked about his favourite series, Sir Patrick said he no longer enjoyed certain programmes because of their modern storylines.
It does seem that railway modelling has yet to suffer the PC that Sir Patrick Moore describes and it does seem the perfect hobby for him from this perspective.
I have a sneeky feeling that a large number of Model Rail Forum members would agree with Sir Patrick's views!
One real question is has anybody ever heard of or seen any woman or team of women create a model railway or is it simply something that women do not have the time to do or have no interest in?
Happy modelling
Gary
QUOTE British TV standards are deteriorating because the BBC is "run by women", astronomer Sir Patrick Moore has said.
The Sky at Night host also described female newsreaders as "jokey" and called for separate channels to cater for the needs of the different sexes.
"I think it may eventually happen," the 84-year-old told the Radio Times.
A BBC spokesman described Sir Patrick as being one of TV's best-loved figures and said his "forthright" views were "what we all love about him".
The presenter said: "The trouble is the BBC now is run by women and it shows soap operas, cooking, quizzes, kitchen-sink plays. You wouldn't have had that in the golden days."
Sir Patrick Moore said
"I used to watch Doctor Who and Star Trek, but they went PC - making women commanders, that kind of thing. I stopped watching"
"I would like to see two independent wavelengths - one controlled by women, and one for us, controlled by men."
He claimed that interesting programmes were screened too late at night, and said he would "rather be dead in a ditch" than appear on Celebrity Big Brother. And asked about his favourite series, Sir Patrick said he no longer enjoyed certain programmes because of their modern storylines.
It does seem that railway modelling has yet to suffer the PC that Sir Patrick Moore describes and it does seem the perfect hobby for him from this perspective.
I have a sneeky feeling that a large number of Model Rail Forum members would agree with Sir Patrick's views!
One real question is has anybody ever heard of or seen any woman or team of women create a model railway or is it simply something that women do not have the time to do or have no interest in?
Happy modelling
Gary