History Radio / SarahKennedy

* AuthorTract: Her conservative views and opinions, often blatant and breaking BBC rules about political impartiality. For instance, she praised right-wing racist politician Enoch Powell [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cdcQGjDPz8 on air]].

* AlcoholInducedIdiocy: or perhaps lack of sleep and medication side-effects. Crashing off the road when clearly drunk is, however, not a bright thing to do.

* RunningGag: Brussels Sprouts. References to the Dearly Beloved.

* PrecisionFStrike: Swearing on air is a ''big'' no-no for BBC radio presenters. Sarah manages it [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSwjmDp7jvAhere]].

* PrecisionFStrike: Swearing on air is a ''big'' no-no for BBC radio presenters. Sarah manages it [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSwjmDp7jvA
here]].

* PrecisionFStrike: Swearing on air is a ''big'' no-no for BBC radio presenters. Sarah manages it [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSwjmDp7jvA here]].

* AuthorTract: her conservative views and opinions, often blatant and breaking BBC rules about political impartiality. For instance, she praised right-wing racist politician Enoch Powell [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cdcQGjDPz8 on air]].

* DrinkingOnDuty: frequently alleged but never conclusively proven: medication issues may have been the cause of the slurring and poor judgement calls. Shortly after leaving the BBC, however, Sarah lost her driving licence in a proven drunk-driving case. You decide: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0VFG7FwaRI Sarah at her finest]].
* PrecisionFStrike: swearing on air is a ''big'' no-no for BBC radio presenters. Sarah manages it '''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSwjmDp7jvA here]]'''.

* DudeNotFunny: the jokes about black people that got her into trouble at least twice.
* PrecisionFStrike: swearing on air is a ''big'' no-no for BBC radio presenters. Sarah manages it '''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSwjmDp7jvA here]]'''.
* ReplacementScrappy: What had been Sarah's early morning show - cut in length and pushed back to a far earlier starting time to accommodate Radio/ChrisEvans - is currently being presented by her successor, Vanessa Feldtz, a woman who had an embarrassingly public CreatorBreakdown on ''Celebrity Big Brother''. Fans of Sarah Kennedy are polite about her successor but if pushed will say she isn't anything like as good.
* SoBadItsGood: listening figures were boosted by those who tuned in early in the hope of hearing another classic Kennedy gaffe.

* ReplacementScrappy: What had been Sarah's early morning show - cut in length and pushed back to a far earlier starting time to accommodate Evans - is currently being presented by her successor, Vanessa Feldtz, a woman who had an embarrassingly public CreatorBreakdown on ''Celebrity Big Brother''. Fans of Sarah Kennedy are polite about her successor but if pushed will say she isn't anything like as good.

* AuthorTract: her conservative views and opinions, often blatant and breaking BBC rules about political impartiality.

* DrinkingOnDuty: frequently alleged but never conclusively proven: medication issues may have been the cause of the slurring and poor judgement calls. Shortly after leaving the BBC, however, Sarah lost her driving licence in a proven drunk-driving case. you decide: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fINX6a3xM28]].

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fINX6a3xM28

* DrinkingOnDuty: frequently alleged but never conclusively proven: medication issues may have been the cause of the slurring and poor judgement calls. Shortly after leaving the BBC, however, Sarah lost her driving licence in a proven drunk-driving case.
* DudeNotFunny: the jokes about black people that got her into trouble at least twice.

* CreatorBreakdown: on at least one occasion her show was taken off the air because she was incoherent, rambling, and clearly in no fit state to continue. Suspicions of DrinkingOnDuty were levelled. Allegedly.

A quintessentially British radio presenter, now retired, who presented an early morning radio show on BBC Radio Two for fifteen years. She previously worked on TV in several shows, most importantly the [[CandidCameraPrank set-up show]] ''Game for A Laugh''. Her performance style on radio was characterised by fumbling, bumbling, on-air gaffes, ocassional lapses into non-politically correct jokes and references, and the suggestion that she sometimes arrived at work in an over-medicated state.

[[caption-width:347:A cheery voice, a dodgy joke, opinions Margaret Thatcher might have thought extreme... and we loved her.]]

A quintessentially British radio presenter, now retired, who presented an early morning radio show on BBC Radio Two for fifteen years. She previously worked on TV in several shows, most importantly the [CandidCameraPrank set-up show]] ''Game for A Laugh''. Her performance style on radio was characterised by fumbling, bumbling, on-air gaffes, ocassional lapses into non-politically correct jokes and references, and the suggestion that she sometimes arrived at work in an over-medicated state.

A quintessentially British radio presenter, now retired, who presented an early morning radio show on BBC Radio Two for fifteen years. She previously worked on TV in several shows, most importantly the HiddenCamera set-up show ''Game for A Laugh''. Her performance style on radio was characterised by fumbling, bumbling, on-air gaffes, ocassional lapses into non-politically correct jokes and references, and the suggestion that she sometimes arrived at work in an over-medicated state.

A quintessentially British radio presenter, now retired, who presented an early morning radio show on BBC Radio Two for fifteen years. her performance style was characterised by fumbling, bumbling, on-air gaffes, ocassional lapses into non-politically correct jokes and references, and the suggestion that she sometimes arrived at work in an over-medicated state.

* CreatorBreakdown: on at least one occasion her show was taken off the air because she was incoherent, rambling, and clearly in no fit state to continue.

A quintessentially British radio presenter, now retired, who presented an early morning radio show on BBC Radio Two for fifteen years. her performance style was characterised by fumbling, bumbling, on-air gaffes, ocassional lapses into non-politically correct jokes and references, and the suggestion that she sometimes arrived at work in an over-medicated state.

Despite this, her on-air personality, reminiscent of a boarding school matron, was loved by many fans, who protested vocally when her association with the BBC was severed in mysterious and still unexplained circumstances in 2009.

* CreatorBreakdown: on at least one occassion her show was taken off the air because she was incoherent, rambling, and clearly in no fit state to continue.

A quintessentially British radio presenter, now retired, who presented an early morning radio show on BBC Radio Two for fifteen years. her performance style was characterised by fumbling, bumbling, on-air gaffes, ocassional lapses into non-politically correct jokes and references, and the suggestion that she sometimes arrived at work in an over-medicated state.

Despite this, her on-air personality, reminiscent of a boarding school matron, was loved by many fans, who protested vocally when her association with the BBC was severed in mysterious and still unexplained circumstances in 2009.

CreatorMeltdown: on at least one occassion her show was taken off the air because she was incoherent, rambling, and clearly in no fit state to continue.
SoBadItsGood: listening figures were boosted by those who tuned in early in the hope of hearing another classic Kennedy gaffe.