The DB swindle was this: the BBC programmes webpage advertised a 45mins. programme on David Bailey's new exhibition about East London, all because of the current madness concerning the Olympics due to take place there soon. The exhibition, alluded to quite often on the Service (so they clearly value it), is apparently about the East End, its characters and the structural changes during the 60s, 80s and now. Coming from the area and representing one of its rags-to-riches icons, the man's the real deal.
The 45mins show turned into a very brief segment, a conversation with Bailey in what seems to be his public grumpy mood, where he said he hated 60s nostalgia (having done very well from it) and that he only used digital for doing street shots because, unlike film, it (digital) has no 'attitude' of its own.
The BBC used the DB connection to advertise the show so well that I had imagined it was all about the man. I can't even remember what the rest was about, other than that it left me fuming with that sense of having been ripped off, lied to, being deprived of my bed and being generally treated as an old rag.
Thing is, they think so much of DB as a draw, so with all their resources, why not just go and do a proper show about man and exhibition? Only 45mins of time to fill, very late at night. Miserable sods.
Rob C