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Whether or not that's true I doubt it will deter the BBC from using her. More people seem to like her than don't like her and the trend seems to be for a presenting style where words are eased out like they're delivering a child rather than narrative.
You have to admit she knows her subject and presents it in a popular format. |
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You may enjoy her infantile lickle girly act but I find it risible. She added nothing to the Russian documentary other than her own irritating presence.
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I would suggest that she knows almost nothing about pre-revolutionary Russia and was merely parroting someone else's script.
Interesting how some consider it acceptable to mock someone for a medical condition which she has seen a therapist about. I have never had any problem understanding anything she says. |
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The Russian royals have been well covered by the beeb in recent years.
Lucy is watchable and I enjoyed the first episode. |
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I doubt it very much, I sould like to see some evidence of that rather than just prejudice. She has plenty of academic qualifications and cannot see why she would not research the programmes herself though she will obviously speak to expert as anyone doing research does. She shares the post at HRP with someone else which presumably to give for preparing her programmes.
Interesting how some consider it acceptable to mock someone for a medical condition which she has seen a therapist about. I have never had any problem understanding anything she says. |
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I doubt it very much, I sould like to see some evidence of that rather than just prejudice. She has plenty of academic qualifications and cannot see why she would not research the programmes herself though she will obviously speak to expert as anyone doing research does. She shares the post at HRP with someone else which presumably to give for preparing her programmes.
Interesting how some consider it acceptable to mock someone for a medical condition which she has seen a therapist about. I have never had any problem understanding anything she says. As someone else said, Worsley is Marmite. Personally, she turns my stomach with her grimacing, childish prancing, gurning, affected delivery and endless obsession with dressing up like some 50-year-old kidult. |
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Controversial but I wasn't a massive fan of her red and black dress.....thought it made her look a little mumsy
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How fabulous?.
Erm, not much. Her series are entertaining enough, but rather frothy and light, lacking depth or new understanding. Oh, and she really isn't all that good looking. If you want a real female historian with depth (and looks), Helen Castor is far superior. |
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Does it say she wrote it? If not then I assume she didn't. At least the almost equally annoying woman who presents the new Egyptian documentary, Joann Fletcher, wrote the script and is an expert in that field.
As someone else said, Worsley is Marmite. Personally, she turns my stomach with her grimacing, childish prancing, gurning, affected delivery and endless obsession with dressing up like some 50-year-old kidult. She works in Royal Palaces so I would think she must have a bit of knowledge! Her DPhil is in 'The Architectural Patronage of William Cavendish, first Duke of Newcastle, 1593–1676'/ Joann Fletcher has a PhD in 'hair and wigs'! She is a very active on Twitter, with news of what she is doing. Ask her if she writes her own material or just 'reads a script'. |
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Controversial but I wasn't a massive fan of her red and black dress.....thought it made her look a little mumsy
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Do all similar series llist the presenter as writer, I would have thought it is just taken for granted that they do their own research mainly though bits might be 'subcontracted'.
She works in Royal Palaces so I would think she must have a bit of knowledge! Her DPhil is in 'The Architectural Patronage of William Cavendish, first Duke of Newcastle, 1593–1676'/ Joann Fletcher has a PhD in 'hair and wigs'! She is a very active on Twitter, with news of what she is doing. Ask her if she writes her own material or just 'reads a script'. |
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Does it say she wrote it? If not then I assume she didn't. At least the almost equally annoying woman who presents the new Egyptian documentary, Joann Fletcher, wrote the script and is an expert in that field.
As someone else said, Worsley is Marmite. Personally, she turns my stomach with her grimacing, childish prancing, gurning, affected delivery and endless obsession with dressing up like some 50-year-old kidult. I was fairly sympathetic with the opnion that Worsley has affected delivery etc, but you are coming across as a bit of a tw*t. |
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I doubt it very much, I sould like to see some evidence of that rather than just prejudice. She has plenty of academic qualifications and cannot see why she would not research the programmes herself though she will obviously speak to expert as anyone doing research does. She shares the post at HRP with someone else which presumably to give for preparing her programmes.
Interesting how some consider it acceptable to mock someone for a medical condition which she has seen a therapist about. I have never had any problem understanding anything she says. PS I saw that interview and I am sure she said Thewapist Whatever that might be Attempts being the operative word (there I even saved you the bother of a reply) |
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Here's another household that loves Lucy. We enjoy everything she does.
![]() I can understand people being irritated by her but I don't understand the hate.
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I doubt it very much, I sould like to see some evidence of that rather than just prejudice. She has plenty of academic qualifications and cannot see why she would not research the programmes herself though she will obviously speak to expert as anyone doing research does. She shares the post at HRP with someone else which presumably to give for preparing her programmes.
Interesting how some consider it acceptable to mock someone for a medical condition which she has seen a therapist about. I have never had any problem understanding anything she says. Well said. |
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Here's another household that loves Lucy. We enjoy everything she does.
![]() I can understand people being irritated by her but I don't understand the hate. ![]() |
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I find her utterly repellent
A little more than irritation I would think
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I watched the Russian thing on iPlayer after I saw it mentioned on this thread. Not one of her better things but okay.
I always avoid answering if asked a lady's age. Good thing I think as after looking at her Wiki entry I guessed she was 12 years older than reality. Though I like her pixie-like face and never found any fault with her speech over many years.
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I find this Lucy intensely annoying and I get depressed when she is given interesting subject matter which inevitably gets given passionless and tepid treatment. Same goes for Alice Roberts.
Female history presenters don't get better than Nina Ramirez and Joann Fletcher. |
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How fabulous?.
Erm, not much. Her series are entertaining enough, but rather frothy and light, lacking depth or new understanding. Oh, and she really isn't all that good looking. If you want a real female historian with depth (and looks), Helen Castor is far superior. |
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Do all similar series llist the presenter as writer, I would have thought it is just taken for granted that they do their own research mainly though bits might be 'subcontracted'.
She works in Royal Palaces so I would think she must have a bit of knowledge! Her DPhil is in 'The Architectural Patronage of William Cavendish, first Duke of Newcastle, 1593–1676'/ Joann Fletcher has a PhD in 'hair and wigs'! She is a very active on Twitter, with news of what she is doing. Ask her if she writes her own material or just 'reads a script'. |
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Oh so so true! Just top of the league - even beyond Dr Alice Roberts (super depth and cute) and Dr Janina Ramirez (something about her suggests she`d be a bit wild) but Dr Castor is outstanding
Imagine a man acting and dressing like a strange little precocious boy from the 1950s. No TV company would touch him with a bargepole. Or maybe the BBC would. Who knows? |
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And as I said, it's not Wurzley's field. She just parroted the words and interviewed people with vastly greater knowledge than her.
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I find this Lucy intensely annoying and I get depressed when she is given interesting subject matter which inevitably gets given passionless and tepid treatment. Same goes for Alice Roberts.
Female history presenters don't get better than Nina Ramirez and Joann Fletcher. |
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No, if it doesn't say she wrote it then assume she didn't. When documentaries are written by the presenter then it usually says so e.g. Immortal Egypt by Joann Fletcher which, despite my reservations about her, was genuinely interesting. 'Written and presented by'. Same is true for many art documentaries. This Russian one just said 'presented by'. And as I said, it's not Wurzley's field. She just parroted the words and interviewed people with vastly greater knowledge than her.
As I wrote if earlier, just ask her. |
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Though I like her pixie-like face and never found any fault with her speech over many years.