Peter Johnson

Retired freelance hack and broadcaster. 47 years in papers, tv and radio From hot metal to all digital, it was a lot of fun.

[Tight Five Rugby @TightFive_Rugby]

🇫🇷 Being reported that Dax’s Noah Nene is going to be called into France’s 42-man Six Nations squad tomorrow!

Dax are currently 5th in the PRO D2. The English equivalent would be a Cornish Pjrate being called into Steve Borthwick’s squad.

Nene is a 20-year-old centre who has played 12 games and scored 3 tries this season.

What a story!

[Peter Johnson @Peearrjay]

@stephenjones9 That is awfully sad news. Steve and I joined Celtic Press in 1973 and did our NCTJ together . Later , I went broadcasting . But he stayed on to grace the sports pages, a one- man assault on the cliche. A fine writer and a very fine fellow. Condolences .

[Peter Johnson @Peearrjay]

@nickwebb2017 Nick .I hope you remonstrated with the bowling side skipper about his oppressive and intimidating close fielding setting.

[Peter Johnson @Peearrjay]

@julieannbarton Hiya J.B. Doing 456 in the mid 80s, I once interviewed a very shirty Roy Hattersley about an anti Labour story in that day's papers. He said this.'Just because it's on the front page of the Daily Mail doesn't mean it's true.' No change there then.....

[Peter Johnson @Peearrjay]

@PontypriddRFC Farewell to the very best of men. Stan was a marvellous and genuine companion in my time as reporter and supporter at Sardis. Never failed to ask about the family, always welcomed my daughters Passionate,personable and Ponty to his bootlaces. Thank you Stan .

[Peter Johnson @Peearrjay]

@RC_Garrioch Rachel, my grandmother who was a teenager then repeated many times when she came home that day there were 'seven empty pairs of boots' in two houses of the family. She had a gift for melodrama, but it was true. All their names are on the monument.

[Peter Johnson @Peearrjay]

@garethboxing @mrmarksteel Parkie wrote a lovely spoof sporting almanac for the year ahead in his Sunday Times column announcing the elevation to the peerage of ‘Lord Wooler of Stoke Poges’. Wooler’s response quoted as ;Mr Parkinson should go far. Australia preferably. Which of course he later did !

[Peter Johnson @Peearrjay]

Wow .What a treat . Expecting Simon Reeve in the Med on BBC 2 , but got the repeat of The BBC Wales Works Band and the wonderful veteran (3 yrs older than me )
Tadaaki Otaka doing Beethoven's 5th and more at the Proms . Truly splendigedig ....

[Peter Johnson @Peearrjay]

@jamesenglish0 Hopeless quest. Personal bias and rates of participation of individual sport involved . Stats do not tell the whole story. Football athletics and tennis as global sports suggest names . But the inescapable minority elephant on the doorstep is The Don.
Bradman for me.

[Peter Johnson @Peearrjay]

In this month of anniversaries, 75 yrs of NHS etc, I have just had an email about one which had escaped my attention. The University of Exeter congratulated me on becoming a politics graduate 50 yrs ago this week . Like most of what I learned , I'd forgotten it.

[Peter Johnson @Peearrjay]

Two historic events today. Unseeded woman wins Wimbledon singles title. And more unlikely my wife, 42 year NHS veteran, senior nurse cardiac care, nursing officer intensive care and all round Nightingale, watched Casualty for the first time this century.

[Peter Johnson @Peearrjay]

@markhutchings1 Sounds like the ever sympathetic style of John 'Capability 'Humphries to me .Chris Stuart reviewed a production of Waiting for Godot .As the copy came in,J.H. grabbed the phone." What do you mean nothing happened. You've been out of the office for 2 hours."

[Peter Johnson @Peearrjay]

@markhutchings1 Well Hutch I commend you to a possible twin town. Hell. It’s in the Virgin Islands. Tim Richards sent me a postcard from there 30 years ago.

[Peter Johnson @Peearrjay]

@lookoutwales2 @MattRosser @PoppyDog08 @BBCRadioWales Well well Gareth. No one has seen that for decades. It was March 1988.Chris went to Radio 2 and I sat in for 6 months - which turned into 12 years. In a rare gesture of thanks the Beeb later gave me the artwork ... Lovely

[Peter Johnson @Peearrjay]

@markhutchings1 How about 'sensible' Mark?

[Peter Johnson @Peearrjay]

@philsteele1 @BBCRadioWales @IndigoPrem And I'll be there about 2,15 Phil. 😀

[Peter Johnson @Peearrjay]

@tasminlittle So right Tasmin. I did foreign languages and English at A level. But Maths was a foreign language to me. Failed three times at O level, with consistency- Grade 8 .

[Peter Johnson @Peearrjay]

@markhutchings1 You're right Mark. Young Aled and I did a lot of our London training courses together light years ago. Funny kind and smiling and like his Dad T Glynne, a class act.Fond memories of ordering in Welsh in an Irish pub in Shepherd's Bush, where the barman thought Aled was Polish.

[Peter Johnson @Peearrjay]

@ApsmRugby Terrific stuff. I've never seen match footage of the Kiwis tour before. Is there any more to be had APSM ? My father played against them twice for Newport and Monmouthshire, a draw and a win , lots of newsprint hand , but no moving pictures. I wonder?

[Peter Johnson @Peearrjay]

@carolyn_hitt Thinking of you and the family today Carolyn. Bill was an absolute pleasure to know and great company. Sad news about a fine man. Love and best wishes Pete and Jean Johnson.