Current and future national treasures

[Orang Utan]

Not sure playing the lead role in a children’s tv show is a cast iron guarantee of national treasurehood. Sure, Tom Baker, but Colin Baker

 

[Orang Utan]

Speaking of actors with stentorian voices - the male Miriam Margoyles, Brian Blessed.
Evidence:

 

[Agent Sparrow]

Speaking of actors with stentorian voices - the male Miriam Margoyles, Brian Blessed.
Evidence:

Plus he’s delivered a baby.

 

[Orang Utan]

Plus he’s delivered a baby.

Definitely 100% true!

 

[Voley]

Brian Blessed's one already, I think. Everyone likes him don't they? Half-killing himself trying to climb Everest did it for me.

 

[Miss-Shelf]

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

I came here to post the same. He's intelligent, funny, charismatic, turning into a versatile actor, stepping into a space of gender/sexual fluidity with style and confidence (a space in part created because of some of the work of past national treasures and a space boldy co created by himself as well )

 

[lazythursday]

I think you can definitely be politically controversial/ unpalatable to a lot of people in your younger days only to find that despite that you've become national treasure in your senior years when most of that is ancient history. Eg the Peter Tatchell trajectory.

 

[skyscraper101]

David Attenborough
Tom Jones
Feargal Sharkey
Lenny Henry
Julie Walters
Peter Kay
Michael Caine
Keith Richards
Shirley Bassey
Shaun Ryder
Jet from Gladiators

 

[Orang Utan]

I came here to post the same. He's intelligent, funny, charismatic, turning into a versatile actor, stepping into a space of gender/sexual fluidity with style and confidence (a space in part created because of some of the work of past national treasures and a space boldy co created by himself as well )

I wouldn’t know him if he walked past me in the street

 

[PTK]

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.

Yes! Alice Roberts!
Other candidate national treasures are Hannah Fry and Adam Rutherford.

 

[PTK]

Future national treasure: Maxine Peake.

 

[PTK]

I think you can definitely be politically controversial/ unpalatable to a lot of people in your younger days only to find that despite that you've become national treasure in your senior years when most of that is ancient history. Eg the Peter Tatchell trajectory.

Tony Been became regarded as a national teasure, having been portrayed as a dangerous insane fanatic in the 1980s. As somone in their 60s, I have a couple of time experienced how older people are often patronised. The radical utterances of those deemed national treasures are met with a fond smile.

 

[PTK]

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

Advising people on their consumer problems, including overcharging by energy supply companies, and the injustices of the social security system is not "elitist". Are libraries and Citizen Advice Bureaux "elitist"?

 

[Silas Loom]

I wouldn’t know him if he walked past me in the street

All Time Lords can do that. They’d be mobbed otherwise.

 

[Idris2002]

Tony Been became regarded as a national teasure, having been portrayed as a dangerous insane fanatic in the 1980s. As somone in their 60s, I have a couple of time experienced how older people are often patronised. The radical utterances of those deemed national treasures are met with a fond smile.

That would be because he wasn't a threat, surely. Corbyn is 70, but will always be "history's greatest monster" to many.

 

[Orang Utan]

Advising people on their consumer problems, including overcharging by energy supply companies, and the injustices of the social security system is not "elitist". Are libraries and Citizen Advice Bureaux "elitist"?

No, but Radio 4 has quite a exclusive listenership, middle class middle England basically.

 

[RiderOnTheStorm]

current
Giles Brandriff

future:
Bradley Walsh
Freddie Flintoff

 

[skyscraper101]

That would be because he wasn't a threat, surely. Corbyn is 70, but will always be "history's greatest monster" to many.

Benn was way more charming than Corbyn could ever be. Go watch his interview with Ali G. Even when being set up, he comes over as a decent charismatic guy. I can't imagine Corbyn would've been anything other than humourless throughout.

 

[bluescreen]

Alf Dubs

 

[Orang Utan]

current
Giles Brandriff

future:
Bradley Walsh
Freddie Flintoff

NO

 

[Idris2002]

Benn was way more charming than Corbyn could ever be. Go watch his interview with Ali G. Even when being set up, he comes over as a decent charismatic guy. I can't imagine Corbyn would've been anything other than humourless throughout.

That's fair. But also, in Benn's time TPTB weren't quite as insecure as their later legimation crisis made them.

Thinking about this in Irish terms. . . there's Michael D. and Marie Cassidy, the former state pathologist (only in Ireland could the state pathologist become a national celebrity who appears on Dancing with the Stars while she's not performing forensic examinations on the remains of murder victims).

 

[souljacker]

Shaun Ryder, Bez and Rowetta

 

[Orang Utan]

Alf Dubs

Who?

 

[8ball]

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?

We could swap a few for those marbles we stole from the Greek.

 

[Sue]

Who?

Ex-Labour MP (old Labour) who came here on the Kindertransport and has been quite outspoken about refugees/asylum seekers.

 

[Orang Utan]

Ex-Labour MP (old Labour) who came here on the Kindertransport and has been quite outspoken about refugees/asylum seekers.

Sounds like a decent man. But I reckon he’d need to be better known to be a national treasure. Somebody who at least half the nation would recognise in a photo.

 

[8ball]

Stephen Fry (do any public poll and see where he comes - it's just a fact).
Kylie Minogue
Bill Bailey

 

[bluescreen]

Who?

Not sure if you're serious.
Great campaigner for asylum seekers.

Alf Dubs, Baron Dubs - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[Orang Utan]

Can’t believe Brandreth was suggested. No politicians should be a national treasure, especially a Tory one

 

[cesare]

Stephen Fry (do any public poll and see where he comes - it's just a fact).
Kylie Minogue
Bill Bailey

I agree with Bill Bailey