Box for the Beeb

Usage examples of telly.

He crossed the corridor, paused irresolutely at the stairhead, then went on toward his own rooms, his head bent, his face expressing the liveliest dissatisfaction: an expression which deepened to disgust when, on opening his door, he perceived Tellier awaiting him within.

Nessie Girvan was recalling the images of Biafran famine on the telly last night.

Before Mozart, Le Tellier had used it for a French comic opera, Righini and Gazzaniga for Italian operas, and Gluck for a ballet.

They had tellies with chips which switch channels as soon as they detect a news or information programme.

No telly, thank God, though Mal was testier than usual and did not invite his mother to bring out her pictures.

Madame Tellier, who came of a respectable family of peasant proprietors in the Department of the Eure, had taken up her profession, just as she would have become a milliner or dressmaker.

But Madame Tellier, who was very indignant, went up to her brother, seized him by the shoulders, and threw him out of the room with such violence that he fell against the wall in the passage, and a minute afterward they heard him pumping water on his head in the yard, and when he reappeared with the cart he was quite calm.

Somebody has to win, she would say, I've seen them on the telly, grinning brickies, office workers in syndicates, housewives, don't tell me that they've all been struck by lightning ten times.

At least they did until thon bunch of blirts on the telly started blatherin' like eejits, makin' sport of the provo cause.

This was what Christmas was all about: not the gluttonous consumerism of the telly ads but a brief interval in which all the filth and flaws of human existence were cloaked in a mantle of purest white.

They were probably about the same age as Vesta Bainbridge, but they had an aura of back kitchens about them, tea served to shirt-sleeved men doing their pools, the telly flicking and shouting in the corner.

But somehow, the Antony and Cleopatra set, the girls in hot pants with their silver balloons, the eighty-five males bashing away at Porgy and Bess on their grand pianos, and the President grinning like a telly puppet, the whole thing worked.

Being a trannie also resembled being a minor celebrity in that the glances you got were related in inverse proportion to the coolness and hipness of the area and the inhabitants' resulting indifference to people from off the telly.

Unfortunately, he still had work to go to, but it was a lot easier to get through the days when there was something else beyond them other than the slow drive home, a microwave ready meal and a couple of hours' mindless telly before bed.

We're going to switch over now to Linda Tellier, who's in our news copter at Redondo Beach.