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May 15th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda - Pair beat Frank Skinner and Adam and Joe to win prize
- Sacked TV hosts Keys and Gray win best sports programme award
By
Paul Revoir and Alasdair Glennie
18:48 EST, 14 May 2012
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02:46 EST, 15 May 2012
Their riotous show has just won one of the most prestigious awards in radio.
But, as may be apparent from their names, Beryl and Betty are not the latest young turks of the airwaves.
They are – at 86 and 90 respectively – probably the oldest women on radio.
The age of radio: Betty, left and Beryl in the studio
Winners: David Reeve of BBC Radio Humberside celebrates his award with ‘co hosts’ Betty and Beryl
Nevertheless, they have seen off established stars and much younger rivals to win the award for best entertainment programme at the Sony Radio Academy Awards, the Oscars of the UK industry.
The BBC Radio Humberside hosts beat names including Frank Skinner and the BBC’s Adam Joe for their hour-long Saturday evening show which airs at 6pm.
The pair banter with co-host David Reeves about matters such as fashion and sex, cackle to seaside postcard humour, and play easy-listening music.
Mr Reeves, who also produces the show, met the two pensioners during a guided tour of the BBC Hull building in 2006.
They now join him every week to offer their ‘knowledge of local history, new music and taste in younger men’.
The Sony radio award judges said: ‘A
joyous, entertaining double act, having fun with the medium and
unconstrained by any ingrained ideas of what works and what doesn’t.
‘They
give a voice to a sector of society unrepresented on radio, and do it
with a joy that puts many of their fellow broadcasters to shame.’
The
double act, which has been on air for six years, picked up their award
watched by some of the industry’s biggest names, including Radio 2 star
Chris Evans.
The ceremony also featured performances from Jessie J and Gary Barlow.
Previous winners of the same award have included Evans, Russell Brand and Chris Moyles.
However, the ladies’ show only pulls in between 10,000 and 20,000 regular listeners each week, directly after their station’s football coverage ends.
Last night Beryl Renwick, 86, said: ‘It’s never been known to have older people like us getting their big break in broadcasting. It’s quite a thing at our age.
‘It all started six years ago. We used to run a Saturday night club for ladies, and we asked the BBC to take us round the studios.
‘David heard us talking and interviewed us for a job on his show, and it all went on from there.’
Asked for the secret of the show’s success, Betty Smith, 90, said: ‘We never stop talking.
‘And because we have lived full lives, people want to hear what we have to say. We are full of good advice.’
Mrs Renwick added: ‘We are never scared to give a straight answer. If a caller has a dilemma, we do our best to help. And we don’t get embarrassed, no matter what the subject matter is.’
Mr Reeves has said: ‘I was interested in older people’s views. Nothing heavy, just their stories, their thoughts on the week.’
He said he had visited old people’s homes to find the right people but had drawn a blank.
DISGRACED SEXISM DUO KEYS AND GRAY PICK UP GONG FOR SPORTS SHOW
Andy Gray, left, and Richard Keys, right – sacked from Sky TV in a sexism row two years ago – won the best sports programme award, pictured right, for their TalkSport show.
The sexism scandal in January 2011, which brought an abrupt end to their 20-year stint with Sky began when the two were recorded speaking off-air about female assistant referee Sian Massey prior to a game between Liverpool and Wolves.
Gray was sacked from his £1.7m a year job at Sky after more tapes emerged of him making sexist comments.
He asked co-presenter Charlotte Jackson to tuck a microphone into his trousers in a 12-second video posted on YouTube by an anonymous user.
Presenter Richard Keys resigned from his £500,000 a year job after a tape was posted of him using crude language in a studio at Chelsea’s Stamford Bridge ground.
He referred to a woman as ‘it’ and twice asked pundit Jamie Redknapp if he ‘smashed it’. Redknapp replied that he ‘used to go out with her’.
But judges at the annual awards said their new morning show on TalkSport was a ‘must-listen for serious sports fans’.
Gray is no stranger to radio having
previously worked as a match summariser for Talk Radio at the World Cup
in France in 1998, and for Five Live at the Japan/South Korea World Cup
in 2002.
‘Tuck that down here’: Andy Gray lost his job
after footage emerged of him asking Charlotte Jackson to put his
microphone down his trousers
‘Did you smash it?’ Richard Keys resigned after a new sexism case emerged
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Great to see these geriatrics rocking in their twilight years. I thought I saw them in the Wonga advert as well. Cool kids they are.
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I was taught to respect my elders………it seems some people on here need to learn that lesson themselves
– Jen, warks, 15/5/2012 12:48 ……………………………….. Young or old, respect is something you have to earn.
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If you haven’t heard these two you are missing a real treat they are very witty and funny!
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Have you ever heard these two. We have to put up with them on our radio station. They are awful.Cringe worthy
– Andrew , Hull, 15/5/2012 08:53……………………..So is Steve Wright, but he has 3 hours a day on a national station, if you don’t like it use the on/off switch like I do.
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Have you ever heard these two. We have to put up with them on our radio station. They are awful.Cringe worthy
– Andrew , Hull, 15/5/2012 08:53……………………..So is Steve Wright, but he has 3 hours a day on a national station, if you don’t like it use the on/off switch like I do.
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I was taught to respect my elders………it seems some people on here need to learn that lesson themselves
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Very sweet in principle but Radio 4 played a snippet of them this morning and it was painful. All the red arrows to people saying likewise are coming from people who have clearly never been subjected to the experience. Perhaps the ladies could have been entertaining on their own or, as another writer has hinted, they might be a barrel of laughs overheard in a coffee shop, but in the studio they were completely over-ridden by some ghastly loud-mouthed DJ anyway.
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Have you ever heard these two. We have to put up with them on our radio station. They are awful.Cringe worthy
– Andrew , Hull, 15/5——————Well maybe the programme is not aimed at your demographic! There are millons of people out there whos tastes do not coincide with yours. Are you suggesting the only things that should be broadcast are those that meet with your approval? GET OVER YOUSELF!
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I have a secret. I visit a certain coffee shop in Stoke for my lunch, not for it’s great food or coffee, but because I know it’s a favourite haunt of a group of 4 old ladies who lunch there. My head is in a book, but I am shamelessly eavesdropping on their conversation. Due to a combination of two being hard of hearing and one who is down-right filthy, it is the most hilarious entertainment I have ever witnessed. I’m not surprised these two ladies on the radio have a large fan base.
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The judges were spot on. Older people are under-represented and not just on the radio but in all forms of media.
So good for the three of them and particularly David Reeve and his obviously supportive management for having the guts to go against the flow. They won’t appeal to everyone but that’s not the point. BBC Humberside’s listener demographic is like most other BBC local stations. They aim at an age group between 40 – 70. Commerical radio
goes for the 15 – 35 range. But there are huge gaps on radio in the UK not catered for, so having chatty old folk on a local station in Hull is just as important as the Today programme on R4. It’s about variety and why I remain quite happy to pay my licence fee.
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