Why Has This Young Woman Lost Her Job To A Man Whose Name Suggests He's Foreign?

[sandyRoe]

For many years Samantha acted ss scorekeeper and butt of the comperes smutty jokes in 'I'm sorry I haven't a clue' on Radio 4.
Now she's been replaced by someone called Sven.
An example of change for changes sake?

[Old_Geezer]

Blooming immigrants !

[Buenchico]

Samantha's only down in the record library, looking for suitable disks for the show. She was hoping that the elderly archivist could offer her some extended play but he's told her that seven inches is the best he can manage.

[wolf63]

I had to ask Uncle Google what you were on about, it didn't say much but the year 2014 was mentioned.

Now that's slow news.

[sandyRoe]

That's about the size of it, Chico.
She's a martyr to smutty innuendo. :-)

[Baldric]

Sandy, do you have a link to the facts please?

And isn't your thread title just a tad racist?

[Jackdaw33]

She's not a young woman, the show's been running for 46 years. Also, she doesn't exist, it was an invention of the late Humphrey Lyttleton.

[Baldric]

Prompted by Wolfs post I Googled,

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2857233/BBC-investigated-imaginary-character-sexism-victim.html

Check the dates.

[sandyRoe]

Sven's name strongly suggests he's Scandinavian. That's hardly racist.

[Baldric]

It's a different race, colour is not important.

[sandyRoe]

Are we really different races? A lot of vikings settled here in times past.

[Tilly2]

It's not Sven-Göran Eriksson is it?

[Mamyalynne]

He used to be Steven , it's the cuts you know.

[sandyRoe]

I doubt it.
Sven-Goran would hardly demean himself by taking a non-speaking role in a radio show.

[Tilly2]

True that, Sandy.

[melv16]

Does he come from Mornington crescent?:-)

[jno]

Peter Cook used to phone up late-night talks shows pretending to be a Norwegian sailor called Sven. He died some years ago; but perhaps this is a tribute act?

[jno]

just in case you think I was making it up (which would be highly inappropriate)

http://stabbers.truth.posiweb.net/stabbers/html/sven.htm