My favourite news story this weekend.. Those automatic 'out of office' replies aren't worth the effort!
Sunday, November 2, 2008
Mind your language
My favourite news story this weekend.. Those automatic 'out of office' replies aren't worth the effort!
Broadcast News
Back on the radio yesterday after a 2 week break. We've had a pretty good run of shows since I came on-board permanently in June but I've been away for the last 2 weeks and Alf's been 'driving the desk' (if you'll excuse a bit of radio-speak!) on her own. I missed it. I made a comment yesterday about how I had been experiencing the same withdrawl symptoms that rocks stars do when they're not on tour and have nowhere to go at 9pm every night. I suppose I was joking but there was a little bit of truth in it. At noon for the last two weeks I've found myself driving down country roads wondering how Alf was getting on and hoping there was plenty of news in the paper for her to talk about..
Yesterday there was tonnes of news to pour over. In fact we only had one guest to talk to and still we only played 3 songs in the whole show.. That's a good sign. The shows when we play 5 or 6 songs are the ones where you know we've struggled. Between the news in the papers and the news during the week we got a good 30 minutes out of it all. Of course the big story up for discussion was the Brand/Ross fiasco which conveniently Alf and I had differing opinions on. My view is that if Russell Brand and the head of Radio 2 Lesley Douglas resigned then there was only one course of action that Jonathan Ross could have taken. Alf disagreed so we had a little bit of a ding-dong. All very light-hearted of course but it got us over the half hour mark..
The rest of the show was an interview with Damian Smith who's co-written a book about the Beatles' Irish connections. It makes such a difference when you've got a guest on the show who is: a) actually in the studio and not on the phone; and b) able to string a few sentences together. This chap met all our criteria and it meant we were able to have a pretty good chat that zipped along pleasantly. And play some Beatles music along the way.
It's always surprising when we come out of the studio having done a pretty good show. It's like we're afraid to congratulate each other for fear of jinxing ourselves. Next week will probably be a dog but for now, I think we're getting better..
Now if I could just get David who's on air before us to stop telling listeners that 'the girls' are on after him . He's a lovely chap but I've been doing the show for almost 5 months and I wish he'd stop it! Still - we wouldn't mind his listeners. Actually we wouldn't mind some listeners. God knows where they go but i don't think they're listening to us. Maybe we should start playing more Tony Bennett and Rosemary Clooney.
You'll find us at 103.2 FM every Saturday at noon.
Yesterday there was tonnes of news to pour over. In fact we only had one guest to talk to and still we only played 3 songs in the whole show.. That's a good sign. The shows when we play 5 or 6 songs are the ones where you know we've struggled. Between the news in the papers and the news during the week we got a good 30 minutes out of it all. Of course the big story up for discussion was the Brand/Ross fiasco which conveniently Alf and I had differing opinions on. My view is that if Russell Brand and the head of Radio 2 Lesley Douglas resigned then there was only one course of action that Jonathan Ross could have taken. Alf disagreed so we had a little bit of a ding-dong. All very light-hearted of course but it got us over the half hour mark..
The rest of the show was an interview with Damian Smith who's co-written a book about the Beatles' Irish connections. It makes such a difference when you've got a guest on the show who is: a) actually in the studio and not on the phone; and b) able to string a few sentences together. This chap met all our criteria and it meant we were able to have a pretty good chat that zipped along pleasantly. And play some Beatles music along the way.
It's always surprising when we come out of the studio having done a pretty good show. It's like we're afraid to congratulate each other for fear of jinxing ourselves. Next week will probably be a dog but for now, I think we're getting better..
Now if I could just get David who's on air before us to stop telling listeners that 'the girls' are on after him . He's a lovely chap but I've been doing the show for almost 5 months and I wish he'd stop it! Still - we wouldn't mind his listeners. Actually we wouldn't mind some listeners. God knows where they go but i don't think they're listening to us. Maybe we should start playing more Tony Bennett and Rosemary Clooney.
You'll find us at 103.2 FM every Saturday at noon.
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