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FIFTY FAMILIAR voices
to television audiences
took off on Monday for an
announcers’ reunion day out
on a couple of Routemaster
double decker buses. The idea
of the get-together came from
Malcolm Garrett-Eynon (continuity
1974-2001) after meeting
colleagues at a recent funeral. The
buses are owned by a group of BBC
presenters including Radio 2’s Ken
Bruce who was a driver for the day
ALL ABOARD: Day trippers include announcers Richard Straker, Matthew Jackson, Bruce Goddard and Malcolm Garrett-Eynon
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◆ MOVE OVER MONSTER RAVING LOONY PARTY.
There is a new clutch of fringe political parties on
the block, including The Jury Team, Libertas, and
No2EU –Yes to Democracy. Many people had never
heard of this trio until they suddenly popped up on
the airwaves ahead of the European elections.
So how did such small and virtually unknown
parties manage to secure a PEB (party election
broadcast)? The answer is they qualify because
all have ‘a full slate of candidates’ for the European Parliament across the UK’s 12 Euro constituencies (78 seats from Greater London, SE
England, SW England, W Midlands, E Midlands,
NW England, NE England, Yorks & Humber, East of
England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales).
Election to the European Parliament is based
on proportional representation, giving fringe
candidates a far better chance than through
Westminster’s first-past-the-post system.
As with PPBs (party political broadcasts), parties make PEBs themselves at their own expense
and are responsible for their content. They do,
however, have to abide by rules set down by the
BBC and Ofcom, which include an obligation to
observe the law on libel, incitement to racial
hatred and violence, and to the BBC’s editorial
guidelines on harm and offence.
◆ FAREWELL THEN TO THE RADIO CAR. Well, not
quite but its days are numbered. BBC Yorkshire
and Lincolnshire are piloting its likely successor,
the iCAV (internet protocol content acquisition
vehicle), a Mercedes people carrier from which
reporters can access all newsroom systems,
edit and package audio and video and transfer
material directly back to base.
Compare this to the traditional analogue
radio car, which can perform only one function,
ie live radio. Also, the car can operate only within
an area defined by a radius from fixed terrestrial
receive points, so there are many places where
it cannot be used to provide live stories.
The iCAV, on the other hand, uses a satellite
to provide connectivity back to base, so can
broadcast from more or less anywhere (provided it is not parked behind a tree or otherwise can’t see the satellite). It is also the case
that while the BBC is extremely good at building
vehicles for live radio, and separate vehicles that
are good for live tv, it has never built a vehicle
that can support online – until the iCAV.
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◆ OH THE STRESS OF IT ALL. As if the job wasn’t
demanding enough, now we’ve got more to
worry about. It seems we’re all overdoing it in
the bar at the end of the working day or pouring
ourselves dangerously large helpings when we
get home. A survey for the department of health
puts media people and those in publishing at
the top of the booze league. On average, we’re
knocking back 44 units of alcohol a week – an
average, mind, so plenty are way beyond that.
Public health minister Dawn Primarolo warns
that this is bad and that a ‘swift one’ after work
can easily turn into one too many.
The official description of one unit is 10ml
of pure alcohol (that’s a little under three teaspoons) and is the equivalent of one pubsize
measure of whisky, a third of a pint of beer or
half a standard size glass of wine.
The health professionals say men should not
have more than four units a day, say a pint and a
scotch, and women three units or a glass and a
half of wine. Ariel’s unofficial guidance is – take
plenty of water with it.
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by Torin Douglas
BBC media correspondent
IT WAS QUITE A WEEK FOR ITV.
Billed on air as ‘A week of finals’,
with Britain’s Got Talent, the Champions League and FA Cup all reaching their climaxes, it lived up to
the hype – in terms of audiences
and advertising revenue, even if it
didn’t deliver the expected results
on screen.
Manchester United and Susan
Boyle did not win, but ITV certainly did
– at least commercially (leaving aside
repercussions from Boyle’s subsequent admission to the Priory).
In its third series, Britain’s Got Talent has become a ratings juggernaut, crushing the opposition in a
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way not seen since Who Wants To
Be A Millionaire hit its peak. With its
semi-finals last week, it produced
average ratings of 11.8m, 13.2m,
12.7m and 12.3m – often grabbing
well over half the total audience.
Saturday night’s final, naturally,
did even better, with an average
17.3m viewers and a 68 percent
share. At its very peak, it was seen
by 19m people - the biggest tv audience for five years (since 20.6m saw
the Euro 2004 match between England and Portugal).
This was a much-needed shot in
the arm for ITV after its torrid time in
recent months. Even its share price
rose – by almost 30 percent at one
stage – as some City analysts
decided its lowly rating was a bit too
lowly. And the Office of Fair Trading
added to its good news by advising
the Competition Commission that it
might relax ITV’s advertising rules.
Britain’s Got Talent certainly dented
the BBC’s viewing figures. It was
helped not just by the widespread
exposure given by newspapers, the
web and broadcasters (including
BBC tv and radio) but also by clever
promotional tactics.
On Thursday, ITV1’s News at Ten
got its best audience since 2003,
after it was given a plug in the final
break of BGT, promising an ‘exclusive’ story about Susan Boyle. It was
seen by 6.4m viewers, for once leaving the rival BBC One bulletin trailing
with just 3.6m.
The football did ITV proud too.
The Champions League final had an
average audience of 9.6m, peaking
at 10.3. Even BBC One’s The Apprentice was no match, attracting just
6.5m viewers – well down on its average for the series.
Fearing a repeat, the BBC is to
move The Apprentice Final from its
planned slot on Wednesday June 10
– where it was due to clash with England’s World Cup football qualifier with
Andorra – to the following Sunday.
Fortunately for the BBC – and
unfortunately for ITV – it was just one
week and Britain’s Got Talent has
now ended its run. And though ITV
is estimated to have earned £30m
in advertising revenue last week, its
financial problems are not over.
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PHOTOGRAPHS: ANNA GORDON
Laura Scarrott steps into
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Frankie Tortora completed a
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two years ago and is now back
working for them full time...
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creative industry so I applied for
work experience with Blast.
I worked on the Blast tour in
London and was invited back the
following year to work with them
on the BBC sports project Your
Game.
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creative traineeship working on
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this year’s tour in the spring. So
far I’ve been involved in helping
tour facilitators and event management and I’m co-ordinating a
poetry competition that’s still in
its early stages.
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◆ PAULETTE EDWARDS, PRESENTER,
RADIO SHEFFIELD
Where did you buy the outfit you’re wearing in
the photo?
Cardigan full price from Marks and Spencer,
which is rare for me because I like a bargain.
Dress £10 from eBay, originally £65 from Betty
Jackson Black at Debenhams. Shoes £15 from
the Next sale two years ago. Glasses from eBay
– they’re older than me. Brooch borrowed
from my mate Stephanie who has great taste.
Earrings from Within Reason, a small shop that
is full of things no one really needs.
Have you taken inspiration from anywhere?
Mad Men. I watch it every week. Don’t ask me
about the plots but I love the outfits.
Are you experimental in your style?
Sometimes, but usually I find something I like
and stick to it. I like to be quite smart, I love to
accessorise and enjoy the company of a good
brooch. I would describe my style as HM The
Queen meets receptionist.
What does your outfit say about you?
I like Mad Men and am ready for summer...
Do you need to dress a particular way for
work?
No, but I like to be comfortable with a hint of
glamour. A brooch is compulsory; I usually
wear something glittery.
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◆ A new entertainment show
called KNOWITALLS has
been commissioned by Liam
Keelan, controller of daytime,
and Jo Street, commissioning
executive for BBC Two. The
show will involve two teams
competing to impress
experts with their specialist
knowledge. The 15x30
minute series will be made inhouse, exec produced by Phil
Parsons, and is expected to
tx this summer.
SPRING CLEAN
YOUR INBOX
Most of us are guilty owners of a
mailbox that resembles the bottom of
our wardrobes. Manchester training
consultant Jan McIntyre suggests ways
to claim back
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EMPTY Deleted Items regularly.
Set Outlook to clear this folder
each time you exit the program.
DELETE IT – if you don’t need it, delete it –
and keep deleting regularly.
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CREATE rules to automatically
move non-essential emails into
another folder that you can browse
through when you have more time.
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MAKE your subject line count
using it to summarise your email;
people scan their mailbox by subject line.
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WE’RE IN for BBC One. The
5x45 minute series will follow
presenter Silla Carron as she
improves a council estate
in Britain (above). Expected
to tx in spring 2010 it will be
made by TwoFour broadcast
and exec produced by CarlaMaria Lawson.
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FOLLOW THE 4 DS OF EMAIL
MANAGEMENT:
DO IT – If it is requesting an action and
you can do it in less than five minutes
then do it and get it out of the way.
DELEGATE IT – Forward the email to
someone else and let the original
recipient know if suitable. Use flags
to remind the person and you when it
needs to be actioned.
REDUCE the number of incoming
messages – get yourself removed
from distribution lists you no longer need
to be on.
CC APPROPRIATELY If you CC other people in your
email, ensure they all know why. Is it just
for reference, do they need to action any
points in the email...
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the email then make sure that you use
the flag method to defer it and remind
yourself.
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twice a day and turn off the autonotification – it will distract you.
DON’T USE REPLY TO ALL
unless you need all the recipients
to see your reply.
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BOOK TIME in your diary each
week to perform housekeeping
and email management – even ten
minutes a week will help.
MOVE all the emails from your
inbox into another folder.
From this day consider it your goal to
keep it empty (don’t forget you still have
to deal with those old emails at some
point).
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– call people and then follow up
with an email for auditing.
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WHEN sending files to colleagues,
attach a hyperlink rather than the
file itself.
GET OUT AND GET DIRTY. That was the
plea from CBeebies character Jelly to
visitors at Pensthorpe Nature Reserve in
Norfolk last week.
The star of The Green Balloon Club,
pictured above with Look East cameraman Martin Giles, was at the home of BBC
FACT OF LIFE
◆ WE'RE A GIVING BUNCH.
In the last financial year people at
the BBC gave £77,103 to charity
through Payroll Giving.
According to Outreach two thirds of
people donate to good causes on a
regular basis, so the BBC teamed up
include butterfly walks, river clean-ups
and bog parties.
‘Jelly was like Madonna, she needed
security and bodyguards,’ says Emma
Borley, regional broadcast co-ordinator.
‘More than 4000 came to Pensthorpe
with most of them there to see her.’
CHANGING PLACES
with the Charities Trust to offer a tax
effective way to do this.
The scheme is open to anyone
paid through PAYE and works by
deducting donations from your
gross pay before tax assessment.
AI SCORES
DOCTORS constantly punches above
its weight in terms of AI scores and May
was no different.
Across the month it achieved an average score of 84 – four points above the
soap genre average. BBC One’s daily
afternoon hospital drama, which is
shown at 1.45pm, attracts an older and
largely female audience – four out of
ten viewers are aged over 65 and seven
Two’s Springwatch to open a day of events
at the site and tell people about the BBC’s
Dirty Weekend.
Part of Learning’s Breathing Places
initiative, the Dirty Weekend takes place
on June 6-7 when a number of nature
events will be held across the UK. These
out of ten are women. Compared with
the soap average, more viewers also
say it is a high quality programme as
well as original and different.
To find out more about what audiences
are saying about the show and to see a
profile of who’s watching, type
‘Doctors’ into the search at
audiencesportal.com.
Director of investment MATT FORDE (pictured) moves
from London's Media Centre to Worldwide’s New York
office. He has been appointed evp for sales and coproduction... SUSANNA POLLACK, who is
also based in Worldwide's New York office,
becomes svp for children's and children's
business development. She was previously
svp for tv sales, co-production and children's...
PAULINE DUFFIE joins BBC Oxford as technical
operator from ITV Borders where she held the same role... KAREN
SHAMELESS PLUG
◆ STEVE ATHAWES,
ENGINEERING SUPPORT MANAGER, WORKPLACE
I’m a keen fly fisherman and this year I have decided to sell off my surplus
rainbow trout and divide the proceeds between two UK charities; Help
For Heroes, an organisation that helps wounded service personnel,
and The Poppy Appeal which supports the serving and ex-service
community. All of the fish will be supplied cleaned, prepared and freshly
frozen ready for the oven or BBQ and will have an average weight of approx
2lb. £3 each or 2 for £5.
Contact Steve Athawes on 07740 818412
◆ BBC Four will show THE
GRANDPARENT DIARIES
as part of the channel’s
Grey Expectations season
which starts in July. The 3x60
minute series, which will be
made by Blast Films, will look
at the relationships between
three sets of grandparents
and their grandchildren.
It was commissioned by
Richard Klein, channel
controller, and will be exec
SPEECH
PATTERNS
◆ FACTORY TELEVISION
Neil Morrissey announces
he is quitting television to
concentrate on being a pub
landlord, telling the Mirror: ‘A lot
of what I do now is nothing more than
factory television, more pain than
fun.’ The cocky lad, who once bounded
happily through the open pastures of
90s televisual possibility, has become a
quivering chicken trapped in a series of
tiny steel cages in which he must grimly
squeeze out acting eggs on demand. It
is a cruel practice, and must be stopped.
A documentary expose is whisked into
production: Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall
stands in a darkened room staring at a
wall of tv sets, his eyes red-rimmed with
tears. On every screen flickers Morrissey
in one of his many post-Men Behaving
Badly roles. ‘Please,’ Hugh implores the
viewer, his voice choked with emotion,
blogbites
Monday
Follow your leader
Some of you may have guessed that, despite
being called The Mole, I am not actually a real
live mole. Perhaps it was my excellent spelling
but, to quote John Merrick in The Elephant
Man: ‘I am not an animal. I’m a human being.’
I mention this as I have been looking at the
Springwatch message board and seen that many
people who were active during Autumnwatch
are back after - as they put it - ‘a good winter
sleep’. The more I thought of Springwatch fans
as animals the more I wondered what the
collective noun for a group of Springwatch fans
might be. Springsters?
The Mole
bbc.co.uk/blogs/springwatch/
Tuesday
Do you like trucking?
Why do we in Britain say lorry and our American
friends say truck? Having just been to a field
in Peterborough the vehicles there were
undoubtedly trucks. Something, I think, to do
with their brashness and sheer size.
Sequin
bbc.co.uk/blogs/pm/
Wednesday
It’s grim up north
Why bother to vote if you think it doesn’t
change anything and politicians are all a bunch
of liars? That seems to be the conclusion of
a survey of European countries ahead of the
European Parliament elections. The Foundation
for Future Studies spoke to 10,000 people
in eight of the EU countries. Asked why the
turnout in elections was going down, 60
percent said people thought election promises
were not kept (63 percent in the UK), 49
percent that numbers bothering to vote had
decreased because people felt their vote didn’t
influence anything (54 percent UK) and 57
percent because of general dissatisfaction with
politicians and political parties (63 percent UK).
The interviews were conducted in March, so the
greater than average British cynicism cannot
be laid at the door of the duck house (MPs’
expenses).
Mark Mardell, Europe editor
bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/markmardell/
Thursday
Quote of the Day
‘There’s been widespread condemnation of
North Yorkshire’s decision to carry out an
underground nuclear test’ – BBC Radio 5 Live
reports on North Korea’s nuclear test.
Magazine Monitor
bbc.co.uk/blogs/magazinemonitor/
Friday
Facing swine flu scrutiny
China is taking the H1N1 threat pretty seriously.
I’ve just come back to Beijing and as we landed
the cabin crew handed out H1N1 health forms
issued by China. These forms asked us to list
our seat number and our contact numbers in
Beijing. When we landed a team of Chinese
health inspectors wearing masks boarded the
plane. The inspectors proceeded slowly down
each row, pointing what I can only describe as a
temperature gun at each passenger’s forehead.
They escorted one passenger off the plane. He
looked pretty embarrassed. In case that man
is diagnosed with H1N1, the Health Ministry has
enough information to track us all down and
put us all into quarantine for a week.
James Reynolds, Beijing correspondent
bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/
jamesreynolds/
a 02·06·09
10 Opinion/Analysis
aview
Will Dancing on Wheels steer
disability into the mainstream?
As BBC Three announces a new entertainment show,
disabled staff and viewers say they want more
examples of disability included in everyday situations
SALLY
HILLIER
A pay deal that
fits the times
SPEAKING OF SMALL… a star is born, and his
name is Perri Kiely – wild hair, big specs and,
at 13, one of the youngest members of dance
group Diversity.
Say what you like about Britain’s Got Talent
– and a lot has been said about it in recent
weeks, including about the personal toll on
favourite Susan Boyle – it has revived a genre
which had its heyday long before anyone
knew what a ‘genre’ was. It’s called variety.
Just as the BBC did with Strictly Come Dancing, revamping ballroom dancing for modern
tv audiences, so ITV has successfully repackaged a format synonymous with The Good
Old Days, Sunday Night at the London Palladium,
Opportunity Knocks and New Faces.
The twist with BGT is that viewers are
involved at every stage – from the (often terrible) early auditions to voting for the final
winner. And you never know who or what will
turn up. It could be a contortionist, an opera
singer, a troupe of dancing ferrets or a man
trying to break the record for eating Ferrero
Rocher chocolates. It’s variety, all right.
Already applications are invited for
next year’s contest. Undoubtedly it will be
another massive ratings success. Perhaps
the BBC should start thinking now about
how to counter BGT. Time to reinvent another
format.
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THE FLAT RATE pay deal of £450 does not
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around £8m and, as one staff member told
Ariel when the details were announced: ‘In the
current climate, it’s better than a slap in the
face.’
Redundancy, repossession, reduced hours…
that is the reality for many at the moment.
On Monday, for example, it was revealed that
Honda workers, who have only just returned to
their Swindon factory after a four-month shutdown, are taking a three percent pay cut for
the next ten months hoping it will safeguard
their jobs.
It’s not just the general economic situation that helped shape the BBC deal. When the
unions submitted their first claim in January,
the retail price index was still rising. Now it is
falling, so any request for a rise ‘to keep pace
with inflation’ would have rung rather hollow.
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from flat rate payments than from percentage
increases.
On the whole, though, people here don’t
do too badly. Average pay for those working
for the licence fee funded domestic BBC is
about £43,000, compared to the UK average of
around £24,000.
Along with other institutions, the BBC will be
the subject of increased scrutiny in the coming months; had it agreed a significant pay rise
for its employees, it would have faced difficult
questions from both its usual critics and the
wider public. This time, smaller is better.
by Andy Walker
Setting an example: Brazilian competitors Luis Antonio and Anete
Cruz in the 2008 Wheelchair Dance Sport World Championships
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SHOWED CHANGE IS NEEDED
■ More disabled people in shows not about disability.
News and current affairs – which already features experts like
Frank Gardner, Gary O’Donoghue and Peter White talking about
matters other than disability – is one area where disabled
audiences would like to see even more.
■ While some disabled people are famous – think Beethoven, Franklin
D Roosevelt, Ray Charles – many disabled people are turned off by
‘super achievers’ and prefer to see everyday people in everyday
situations.
■ In general, disabled actors should play disabled characters.
‘While there have been a number of very good portrayals of
disabled characters by non-disabled performers, disabled
actors understand the nuances better,’ says Patrick Hourihan. ‘In
addition, the pool of disabled acting talent needs to be widened,
but without resorting to tokenism.’
■ Writers and producers should not be afraid to create flawed
disabled characters, as the research indicates that disabled audiences
think disabled characters are sometimes treated too softly.
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their particular areas of content.
To book a session, contact
Ally Castle ( 02-58385).
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is editor of
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WE HEAR THAT. . .
Pat Noel had a surprise encounter when
she booked herself into the wrong hotel over
the bank holiday weekend. The BBC Oxford
receptionist wanted to stay in the centre
of Lincoln but ended up in Scunthorpe. So
imagine her surprise when Manchester
United players and Alex Ferguson turned
up in a large bus outside of her hotel.
She shook the great manager’s hand but
couldn’t muster the courage to ask him for
an autograph.
DOWNSIDE Martha Kearney writes in the
June issue of Reader’s Digest
how her beekeeping hobby
left her with a swollen face
after a couple of nasty stings.
‘My face swelled greatly overnight and when I arrived
to present The World
At One the next day,
there were jokes from
colleagues about the
elephant woman,’
she reveals.
EARWIGGING
OVERHEARD AT THE BBC
…Yes I will, as soon as I get the
cranberry out from between
the X and C keys…
…I’m not going to be a
prostitute; I’m going to do
the old, blind woman…
…Doesn’t everyone collect the stickers
off bananas?...
… Don’t marry a farmer…
…I’m teaching him far too much attitude…
explore.gateway.bbc.co.uk/ariel
LAND OF SPIKE
UPSIDE The MC&A knowledge team celebrates the arrival of Ida, a 47 million-yearold fossil, to the Natural History Museum.
Ida was in London for a day, before flying
to Oslo. The significance of the fossil was
explained in Uncovering Our Earliest Ancestor,
narrated by Attenborough, which got 3m
viewers on BBC One last week. (l-r: Samantha Burnett, Victoria Asare-Archer, Daniel
Buchuk, David Attenborough, Su Fall, Kate
Orman)
… Shola Ameobi [Newcastle striker] has
added me as a friend on Facebook… He
hasn’t spoken since they went down…
THOSE IN GLASS HOUSES... Media Monkey was
swift to poke fun at 5 Live newsreader Cory Allen
when she announced that there had been
‘widespread condemnation of North Yorkshire’s
decision to carry out a nuclear test’. As karma
would have it, they moved on to a story about
how commuters were able to pick up copies of
the Evening Standard from London’s ‘mainline
radio stations’. Sadly it was a subbing error, rather
than a multimedia revolution at the paper...
PHOTOGRAPH: SAM PEACH
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ITS ALL IN
THE LYRICS
WHEN SOMETHING funny or unexpected happens on live television it’s
immediately obvious. With radio, however, the moment can be more subtle.
Exhibit one: Three Counties Radio.
There had just been a news story about
a fatal house fire in Leighton Buzzard.
A producer or presenter didn’t quite
make the connection between the bulletin’s headlines and what song they
were about to play next: Disco Inferno.
Cue the inevitable email to all staff,
warning about getting burned.
But perhaps there’s a rebel in the
ranks. Immediately after a bulletin
about Margaret Moran stepping down
as Luton South MP last Friday, someone, intentionally or not, played The
Moody Blues’ version of Go Now.
In the spirit of insensitivity, green
room has come up with its own list of
inappropriate songs to be played after
recent news headlines.
SWINE FLU You Give Me Fever by
Peggy Lee
NORTH KOREA NUCLEAR TESTS: Love
Missile F1-11 by Sigue Sigue Sputnik;
Boom! Shake the Room by DJ Jazzy
Jeff and the Fresh Prince; and It’s The
End of the World As We Know It by
REM
G20 PROTESTS: Fight the Power by
Public Enemy; and I Predict A Riot by
the Kaiser Chiefs
CHAMPIONS LEAGUE FINAL RESULT:
We Are The Champions by Queen; and
Barcelona by Montserrat Caballe and
Freddie Mercury
As for the disgraced MPs, we think
they should all be singing along to
Sunny Afternoon by The Kinks: ‘The
tax man’s taken all my dough/And
left me in my stately home/Lazing on
a sunny afternoon/And I can’t sail my
yacht/He’s taken everything I’ve got/
All I’ve got’s this sunny afternoon.’
Subway surprise
MOST OF US have had that moment of
coming across a friend or acquaintance in a totally unexpected place.
For Charles Runcie, it was across the
Atlantic Ocean. The head of sport for
the English regions was in New York
last month, taking a morning subway
downtown to the financial district.
When he heard ‘Charles, Charles’
shouted from the other end of the
carriage, he looked up from his newspaper to see his opposite number in
Wales, Geoff Williams (head of change
and internal comms).
Geoff was with his wife and daughter for a long birthday weekend.
‘I’d no idea he was in town,’ Charles
tells the green room. ‘Needless to
say, within a minute of saying hello
Geoff and Charles find themselves in
the same subway carriage in NY
we were talking about a recent BBC
meeting.’
Charles says he once met football
commentator Alan Green on a beach
in Yugoslavia too. But, don’t worry,
we’ve no picture of Green in his beach
shorts.
WHOEVER SAID watching grown-up television
was bad for children? A boy of seven saved his little
brother from choking by using skills he’d seen on
his favourite show, Casualty. Cavan Day slapped two
year-old Ethan on the back when the toddler got a
ball stuck in his mouth. ‘I saw a scene on Casualty
once where someone was choking and I just remembered what to do,’ said the nonplussed hero.
NOTHING WRONG with a bit of choking on television (see above), but heaven forbid a child witness
some kissing. According
to the Daily Mail, William Barclay-Clark
(9) is angry at
the number
of ‘revolting’
kisses in Robin
Hood and has
lodged a formal complaint
with the BBC.
‘In Robin Hood,
snogging happens every single
week,’ fumes William. ‘In the last series
Maid Marian died and now
Robin is pretty much with every girl.’ Dear William,
green room is afraid that most men on tv have this
tendency to, um, cast their nets wide.
IT’S TOUGH failing in public – and an interview in
the Guardian shows that Davina McCall hasn’t quite
got over the failure of her eponymous talk show on
BBC One in 2005. ‘I stopped reading the papers but
whenever I went out, people hugged me, consoled
me. I was weighed down by their insipid pity. So no,
I don’t want to do a chat show again, I’m still fairly
bruised,’ says the presenter. Which is rather strange
since the article is about how she’s trying to find
a home for a new talk show she is developing and
(surprise, surprise) not having much luck.
YOU CAN do all the compliance courses you like,
but there is always the peril that someone is going
to say something inappropriate on live radio. Last
week, an interview with screen legend Tony Curtis on Radio Ulster turned into a masterclass in
swearing. The frail-looking 84 year-old was being
interviewed about his new book, American Prince,
when he swore several times and used the f-word.
Presenter William Crawley apologised for the actor,
who didn’t know the show was live. Maybe someone should have told him.
OKAY, SO everyone knows that the BBC had a
programme lined up for the death of the Queen
Mother. But apparently the corporation is also
working on one about the still-to-be-confirmed
engagement of Prince William and Kate Middleton. According to a news item, a bragging executive was overheard saying that ‘we would not be
spending money on this programme if we had not
been assured that they were definitely going to get
engaged’. Time to get yourself down to the bookies
and check those odds.
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