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Who presents "This Week" on radio 1?

  • 10-05-2009 1:07pm
    #1
    mike65
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    He's awful isn't he? Sounds like he is constantly gulping for a brealth, almost a slightly "inebriated" style.


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  • #2
    deadhead13
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    Gerald Barry.


  • #3
    FlutterinBantam
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    I like his style,perhaps the "delph" might be inhibiting him.


  • #4
    Nightwish
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    Yeah its Gerald Barry. He sounded particularly bad this week. Kinda slurring his words towards the end of the show.


  • #5
    deadhead13
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    He has been with RTE for years. On Bowan's Sunday Morning show a couple of weeks ago there was a cilp of Barry interviewing someone in the 70's and he sounded the exact same.


  • #6
    humberklog
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    He did sound worse today than previously. Even the daughter in the back of the jammer raised an eyebrow in concern for his health. He did pick himself up midway through the show.

    Good show and presenter though.


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  • #7
    ronbyrne2005
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    Didnt he have a stroke or something last year that impacted on his voice?


  • #8
    Firetrap
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    He's always sounded a bit odd to me.. wouldn't wish a stroke on anyone though.


  • #9
    DublinWriter
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,559 ✭✭✭DublinWriter


    Jaysus Mike, give him a break, he suffered from a stroke a number of years ago. He still produces the programme excellently.

    That said, what was Val(ve) Joyce's excuse?...I drove back from many a wedding gig years ago listening to his graveyard slot, glancing at Montrose as I drove by, grimacing at the dead-air and his insistence on reading the feast days of the Saints before more dead air and the random playing of a tune.


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