The Steve Rosenberg referred to has been the beeb’s Moscow correspondent for a long time. No need to say more about his view of things in Russia and the Ukraine!
SELFQUOTE:
Dear Michael,
Just wanted to congratulate you and Steve Rosenberg for your brilliant comedy double-act in today’s broadcast of ‘Private Passions’.
Your portrayals of two BBC-trusties running through all the narrative talking points of their in-group delusion-bubble about the war in the Ukraine was simply hilarious satire. You deserve Oscars for your performances, both of you. Absolute comedy genius!
Such a pity that the fourteen thousand or so ethnic-Russians of the Donbas, murdered by eight years of deliberately-provocative, indiscriminate artillery-fire on civilians, carried on since Washington’s 2014 coup in the Ukraine, by the forces of their puppets in the Kiev junta, couldn’t have heard your spoof. My, how they would have laughed! Especially the hundred or so murdered children!
I hope PP will be offering more mordant comedy along these lines soon. Laughs galore! Please pass my congratulations along to Steve.
Yours, Rhisiart Gwilym
UNQUOTE.
I didn’t add “you pair of fucking scumbags!” as I was tempted to do. Just thought the sarcasm would be sharper without it…