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How fabulous is Dr Lucy Worsley?!
I really wish the BBC would put her on their main channels as she doesn't deserve to be hidden away on BBC 4!
Anyway, I love all the documentaries that she presents. She is so engaging, informed and enthusiastic, but in a sexy dominatrix sort of way She really deserves to be a bigger tv personality. Any other fans of Lucy?
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Yep, I am a big fan of Lucy.
She presents her progs in an easygoing style that endears her to the audience. |
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We love Lucy in this house! Love her Enid Blyton esque way of presenting.
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Is she the one with the speech defect?
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I genuinely admire her knowledge and completely understand why she's used by BBC and why some might like her. Nay, even love her.
But I could only bear a few minutes of her simpering before I reached for the off switch. Just one of those presenters I find a bit Marmite, and now avoid her programmes. Which is a shame, because I find the subjects interesting. |
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I can't get BBC4 any more as they suddenly decided to change their satellite frequency - so I can't watch Lucy these days. Shame. What I like about her is that she really gets into her subjects personally and is not above getting dressed as a servant girl and stuck in to all the grotty jobs they used to do.
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If by "fabulous" you mean "intensely irritating", then I agree
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I think shes great.A good history presenter and not boring at all.
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Alongside Bettany Hughes my favorite Tv histroian. I love her passiona nd enthusiasm and how she never patronising the audience she's great
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Alongside Bettany Hughes my favorite Tv histroian. I love her passion and enthusiasm and how she never patronising the audience she's great
![]() I also love her personal style, a really nice wardrobe of coats/dresses etc... |
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I'm a fan of Lucy too. She makes history come alive and I find that I take in more of the facts than when a more conservative type of historian presents a programme, rattling off dates and facts. Her enthusiasm and sense of humour are very engaging and I always watch the shows she presents. I like her quirkiness and unconventionality, especially when she gets stuck in and takes part in activities from the eras she's talking about. I can't see any of the 'stuffed shirt' historians doing that!
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How fabulous is Dr Lucy Worsley?
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Is she the one with the speech defect?
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Is she the one with the speech defect?
If you go to 1:59 in this Utube clip you'll hear her say — 'So the philosophers 'fought' that ...":— http://http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rvlg41mdHjQ I enjoy her programmes and am looking forward to her new series on 'Murder'. |
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Yes. She's well-known for 'rhotacism' i.e. pronouncing 'R' as a 'W'. She also has a rather rarer defect among 'posh' people of occasionally pronouncing the 'TH' sound as an 'F' e.g 'fought' for the word 'thought'.
If you go to 1:59 in this Utube clip you'll hear her say — 'So the philosophers 'fought' that ...":— http://http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rvlg41mdHjQ I enjoy her programmes and am looking forward to her new series on 'Murder'.
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She's super-duper fabulous...
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She also has a rather rarer defect among 'posh' people of occasionally pronouncing the 'TH' sound as an 'F' e.g 'fought' for the word 'thought'.
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She's OK I suppose, depending on the subject she's prattling on about.
With thin lips, boyish figure, bandy legs and a cranky hairstyle from the 1920s she doesn't do anything for my loins. |
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She's OK I suppose, depending on the subject she's prattling on about.
With thin lips, boyish figure, bandy legs and a cranky hairstyle from the 1920s she doesn't do anything for my loins. |
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Very nice, I would love to spend a cultural evening with her.
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Very nice, I would love to spend a cultural evening with her.
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I genuinely admire her knowledge and completely understand why she's used by BBC and why some might like her. Nay, even love her.
But I could only bear a few minutes of her simpering before I reached for the off switch. Just one of those presenters I find a bit Marmite, and now avoid her programmes. Which is a shame, because I find the subjects interesting. Sometimes she's a bit over enthusiastic and talks over her fellow experts, but I can suffer that because it seems to be just enthusiasm. That reminds me, to look out for the next edition of Harlots Housewives And Heroines it's been repeated at the moment. |
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I'm a Brad Pitt/David Beckham lookalike & considered a bit of an oil painting.
So it me the right to say that every time I see her I think of E.T. http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=5l2yaw&s=5
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I love Lucy, and TIL 'rhotacism'.
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I love Lucy. And I especially like her way of giving us the minutiae of history, the details of everyday life, rather than just the big events.
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I knew that a fair number of people wouldn't take to Lucy, but I find her very charming as a package.
Sometimes she's a bit over enthusiastic and talks over her fellow experts, but I can suffer that because it seems to be just enthusiasm. That reminds me, to look out for the next edition of Harlots Housewives And Heroines it's been repeated at the moment. |
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She really deserves to be a bigger tv personality.

