Comments on: Live across South Yorkshire

By: martin

martin — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 11:13:29 +0000

Callum- surely “along the corridor, turn left after Costa and down the wee flight of stairs” is nearer than going all the way into central London, to find a rather less well known building?

By: Dan Sumption

Dan Sumption — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 15:24:30 +0000

When I saw your Yammer about the interview, I got all dewy-eyed and remorseful at having to spend 5 days a week in White City instead of Sheffield. Now that I know you didn’t actually leave the M25, I’m not jealous any more.

PS. Toby’s great, isn’t he?

By: Rob

Rob — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 20:49:31 +0000

I’m sure you were keen to listen to Toby’s show anyway — but did you do so to improve your performance on it? I can’t imagine many local radio prods are in the habit of sending clips to would-be contributors. But I bet it would make for some better interviews that, after the event, those at both ends of the line would feel happier with.

By: James Cridland

James Cridland — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 11:53:52 +0000

Was that who it was? Oh, bugger.

By: Ian Anderson

Ian Anderson — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 11:20:30 +0000

“a guy with white hair” – what a lovely round-about way to brag that you’ve met Terry Pratchett ;-)

By: Callum

Callum — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 08:31:24 +0000

If you’re a BBC local radio producer, it’s very, very difficult to interview someone live from TV Centre, unless they’ve been booked by GNS, which is the bit of BBC News which does national stories for local stations.

There’s only one proper unstaffed “contribution” studio — and that’s no-where near the Radio 4 and Radio 5 studios, which might conceivably be useful if stations are sharing guests.

Unless you know exactly how to sweet-talk a Five Live or Today producer into putting their guests into one of the little workshop studios near their desks, it really is simpler to say: “Tell you what, get on the central line, get off at Oxford Circus, walk up Great Portland Street, it’s on your left.”

Madness, I know.

(My own views, not those of my employer, etc etc etc!)