I went on the radio today. It’s my usual thing with Ed Doolan on BBC WM, where I talk about ‘new media’ and answer phone-in questions for an hour once every 6-8 weeks.
You can listen to it here. I’m on in the second hour, so you’ll have to click ahead on the SKIP 15 MINS button a few times. But I think you’ve only got 24 hours before it’s replaced by tomorrow’s show. Less, probably.
Ed has ideas about global warming that even the Bush administration have backed away from as being a bit ‘lunatic fringe’, so it was fun to argue the toss with him about that stuff. But we also talked Windows Vista, HD formats, gaming consoles, mp3 players and mobile phones.
If I manage to record it in time (ie: while it’s still available), I’ll upload it here.
Funny story though… I don’t know if you remember, but there was a case of mistaken identity a little while back, when a guy called Guy who had turned up for a job interview in tech support at the BBC was brought onto the News 24 channel to talk about online music, Apple computers, digital downloads and the like.
The guy they wanted was a different Guy, and it was all very embarrassing. He hadn’t been expecting the cameras, and his rabbit-in-the-headlights bluff led him to become something of a cause celebre (the urban legend about him being a cab driver or ’some guy off the street’ turned out not to be the case). Most people still think he thought that this was part of the job interview process.
Well, the same thing ALMOST happened to me. I was sitting in reception waiting to be taken down to the studio to go on Ed’s show. It was already 11 o’clock and the news was on, so there wasn’t much time to get down to the studio, set up and get on air. An out-of-breath BBC worker ran up the stairs to the main reception, and asked if I was Andrew. I told him I was, so he had me follow him.
Halfway down the stairs, he hesitated and said ‘Gardener’s World, right?’
I assured him that it would be a grave mistake to put me on Gardener’s World, and that the other guy sitting up in reception must have been the Andrew he was looking for. So rather than go on the telly and tell you which way up to plant your bulbs, I ended up on the radio talking about iPods, digital telly, energy saving light bulbs and global warming.
Which is a bit of a relief.
Later on this evening, I was also interviewed over the phone by Alice from 95bFM (in New Zealand) for an upcoming series of Inside Track.
It was kind of cool, as Alice is a former radio student of mine, and has since developed into a good all-round broadcaster — by which I mean she can interview, present, produce and (perhaps most importantly) drive a production studio like the Stig drives a car.
We spoke for 40-odd minutes on online music. Hopefully there’s some worthwhile stuff somewhere in that lot. She’s interviewed a few other people, and she has a 15 minute programme to make. Here’s where the editing skills will come in handy.
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