Current and future national treasures

[bluescreen]

Sorry to pick on a nonegenarian but it's a firm no from me for David Attenborough.

why?

 

[scifisam]

Lenny Henry
Tanni Grey-Thompson
Peter White
Stephen Fry wants to be but definitely isn't, imo.
Ian Hislop in danger of becoming though he'd be horrified (hence in danger).

Ian Hislop would fucking hate it! But I think he counts, at least potentially. I would also love to see him shake his jowels at the very idea.

As do the others, barring Peter White because I don't know who that is.

Chris Packham is one of the youngest contenders for national treasure I can think of. He's basically there already and probably finding it a little hard to deal with.

 

[Humberto]

why?

It would be a considerable derail, maybe worth it's own thread

But it goes a little like this.

David Attenborough does not talk about the structural issues that are the demise of nature. He has carte blanche to present his narrative within the BBC. He's easily bought off or more likely self-satisfied by fossil fuel company propaganda/marketing that blames 'overpopulation' and individual responsibility.

 

[bluescreen]

Ian Hislop would fucking hate it! But I think he counts, at least potentially. I would also love to see him shake his jowels at the very idea.

As do the others, barring Peter White because I don't know who that is.

Chris Packham is one of the youngest contenders for national treasure I can think of. He's basically there already and probably finding it a little hard to deal with.

I was thinking of Chris Packham too.

Peter White is a blind broadcaster. Amazing bloke.

Peter White (broadcaster) - Wikipedia

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[scifisam]

It would be a considerable derail, maybe worth it's own thread

But it goes a little like this.

David Attenborough does not talk about the structural issues that are the demise of nature. He has carte blanche to present his narrative within the BBC. He's easily bought off or more likely self-satisfied by fossil fuel company propaganda/marketing that blames 'overpopulation' and individual responsibility.

I disagree but I think it is definitely worth its own thread.

 

[littlebabyjesus]

It would be a considerable derail, maybe worth it's own thread

But it goes a little like this.

David Attenborough does not talk about the structural issues that are the demise of nature. He has carte blanche to present his narrative within the BBC. He's easily bought off or more likely self-satisfied by fossil fuel company propaganda/marketing that blames 'overpopulation' and individual responsibility.

He's rowed back on some of his Malthusian stuff. You're right, he did come out with it a few years ago. It was disappointing. But he appears to have reconsidered at least some of it.

 

[Humberto]

He's rowed back on some of his Malthusian stuff. You're right, he did come out with it a few years ago. It was disappointing. But he appears to have reconsidered at least some of it.

Glad to know he's still open to 'reconsidering some of it' in his ninth decade, and his useless influence.

 

[PTK]

Michael Caine – no. Not lovable enough.

Graham Norton – no. Too vulgar, and too stupid at the time of the invasion of Iraq.

The actor, Adrian Lester, in years to come?

Yes to Fergal Sharkey (in about ten years from now).

Yes to Tom Baker.

Yes to the aforementioned Michael Rosen.

Yes to the historian Mary Beard.

Possibly, in about a decade or more, Brian Cox, the scientist, will become a national treasure.

Perhaps the scientist Maggie Aderin-Pocock may become a national treasure, but she is not widely enough known at present.

In twenty or thirty years, perhaps the biblical scholar Francesca Stavrakopoulou will become a national treasure.

Bettany Hughes, the historian, in years to come?

Carlo Rovelli, the scientist (if he moves to Britain)?

 

[littlebabyjesus]

Carlo Rovelli, the scientist (if he moves to Britain)?

I love Carlo Rovelli, but I don't think he's even lived in Britain. He's an international treasure. (The sequel?)

 

[PTK]

I forgot to add another nomination for national treasure: Winifred Robinson, a presenter of You and Yours on Radio 4.

 

[PTK]

I love Carlo Rovelli, but I don't think he's even lived in Britain. He's an international treasure. (The sequel?)

He gave a lecture in London recently, and was on the radio a few years ago, reading from one of his books. The government should offer him National Treasure status if he moves to Britain.

 

[Sue]

Yes to Fergal Sharkey (in about ten years from now).

Oh, good call. The music and now he's so passionate about our waterways/calling out evil polluters.

 

[bluescreen]

I forgot to add another nomination for national treasure: Winifred Robinson, a presenter of You and Yours on Radio 4.

Just because i nominated Peter White? It was a mis-call by me if no one's heard of him, though he's a star in that niche. She's good at her job and popular but you might as well nominate Alan Tit-

But that reminds me, if anyone's headed for treasuredom young, it's Marcus Rashford.

 

[PTK]

Just because i nominated Peter White? It was a mis-call by me if no one's heard of him, though he's a star in that niche. She's good at her job and popular but you might as well nominate Alan Tit-

But that reminds me, if anyone's headed for treasuredom young, it's Marcus Rashford.

How's about. . . Gary Linekar?

 

[rubbershoes]

I forgot to add another nomination for national treasure: Winifred Robinson, a presenter of You and Yours on Radio 4.

"And now it's time for You and Yours" are words that make me reach for the off button with some urgency.

 

[Elpenor]

I was going to say Rashford. I don’t like or follow football, but he’s cut through to me

100% Peter White

Meera Syal

Am also a big fan of Kirsty Young

Attenborough … BBC management in the 70s, enough said there, part of the boss class. He would have known stuff and did or said nothing.

 

[Steel Icarus]

How's about. . . Gary Linekar?

Half the country hate him, he's been political but isn't funny enough for people to forgive it.

 

[Steel Icarus]

Ricky Tomlinson
Craig Cash

 

[Orang Utan]

Caine! Hmm, think he'd count.

Michael Sheen will definitely count. Ejiofor - not sure. Fantastic actor, someone I will watch if he's in a movie, but not that well known.

I know him more than Rylan! Not quite sure what he does

 

[Orang Utan]

Joanna Lumley?

Too posh

 

[hegley]

Floella Benjamin; hopefully Ncuti Gatwa but he's got a long way to go so anything could happen; Maggie Smith - there already?; Garry Oldman; Olivia Colman.

 

[Orang Utan]

Another vote for Meera Syal, Miriam Margoyles, Michael Rosen.
I think it’s daft to nominate historians and sports people as I would have thought a condition of National Treasurehood is surely that they have to be universally known AND loved.

 

[Orang Utan]

Floella Benjamin is an excellent nomination!

 

[tim]

Sorry to pick on a nonegenarian but it's a firm no from me for David Attenborough.

What have you got against a privileged ageing neoMalthusian, who probably isn't as cruel as Terry Nutkin was?

Also, would all these Welsh, Scottish and Irish people being nominated want or have wanted to be twee National treasures of the British state?

 

[Orang Utan]

I forgot to add another nomination for national treasure: Winifred Robinson, a presenter of You and Yours on Radio 4.

never heard of her. Being a radio presenter is not going to make you a national treasure - they need to be known further afield than an elitist radio station

 

[mojo pixy]

The real national treasure was the elitism we made along the way

 

[Silas Loom]

Can we sell these national treasures in a job lot to a nouveau riche petrostate whose international reputation would be enhanced by keeping Carol Voderman and David Attenborough on permanent display in a marble air-conditioned desert museum?

 

[MickiQ]

I just don't get what anyone sees in Rylan Clark, the man is loud, obnoxious and talentless. As for other so-called national treasures (as opposed to real ones like the Crown Jewels) is it seems to me that in order to qualify it's a fine balance between successful enough to be memorable but not successful enough to become obscenely rich.

 

[Voley]

I was watching Digging for Britain last night. How about Prof Alice Roberts? Humanist, deals with twats on Twitter very well. Probably not up there with Kathy Burke but an outside bet?

Once liked one of my tweets and occasionally natters to my OH online too so that counts, in my book.

 

[Agent Sparrow]

Floella Benjamin; hopefully Ncuti Gatwa but he's got a long way to go so anything could happen; Maggie Smith - there already?; Garry Oldman; Olivia Colman.

There is something about Ncuti Gatwa that makes him feel like a national treasure in training. Is there a mentoring scheme ?