Phone is mellllting. SEND MORE BRAINS.

[reddragdiva]

• Photo: visio is for the unworthy and inadequate. Must write a notnews.

Fun at Channel 4, recorded a sequence of soundbites for them to pick'n'choose from. News story with video — their Flash player is crappy crappy crappy and doesn't buffer. I look DEAD. The IWF head came across as a curtain-twitching weasel.

redcountess, arkady and nyecamden (whose intarweb and Eee I abused appallingly last night while he restrained his boredom) are the BEST LOVED ONES EVER for putting up with me saving the world on occasion.

I wasn't aware before going on it just how important Radio 4 Today is. In fact, I'd barely heard of it. Do I get deported now?

Freda just said "Dad-dy! Hel-lo! Dad-dy!" *melllt*

Comments

[nyecamden.livejournal.com]

*points to icon*

You must listen. You must listen.

You weren't boring all night :-)

[reddragdiva]

When I'm on George Hook's show, he always introduces me as "the editor of Wikipedia in the UK." Always knew learning to touchtype was worth it.

[gmh.livejournal.com]

The IWF flack came across as a spineless gimp with all the charm of an industrial estate in Bracknell; I just wish Channel 4 had given Jon Snow a bit more time to fillet the guy, as he was so obviously incapable of defending his position without resorting to cliche.

Am now somewhat tempted to report the National Gallery's website to the IWF for Bronzino's Allegory with Venus and Cupid (http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/cgi-bin/WebObjects.dll/CollectionPublisher.woa/wa/largeImage?workNumber=NG651&collectionPublisherSection=work) - which depicts not only underage nudity, but actual kiddie-fiddling, depicted with the greatest accuracy, using cutting-edge C16th technology.

(After all, if you're going to start censoring the past according to current standards, the blocklist is potentially massive.)

[barakta]

Excellent, transcript was also brilliant thank you.

[reddragdiva]

Trust me, it is. People are making lists.

[reddragdiva]

You may not be able to make out the words in the mp3 very well, but hopefully you can pick up the tone of our voices :-D

[steer.livejournal.com]

Oh my god. How can you have lived here so long and not realised the central importance of the Today program to civilisation in England?

[reddragdiva]

I know, I know. Send me back to Poland.

[alien8.livejournal.com]

nice Elsinore Tshirt on C4 :)

[reddragdiva]

I shall send Top Mum a bill ;-p

[shimgray.livejournal.com]

And, indeed, its importance to the end of civilisation in England.

[barakta]

The MP3 was remarkably clear, Radio 4 is the ultimate in audibility (radio tuning and shit hardware notwithstanding), the transcript made it so I felt I was hearing it all 100%.

The way my brain works is if I have a transcript/good-subs I'll not notice audible glitches I'll hear more or less what I read. Which makes for fun with glitchy/wrong TV subs - my partner stops and tells me the mistake usually. Myth++.

All of you were speaking slowly and clearly with a regular cadence which really helps. Radio 4 tends to have that as a standard in a way much of the BBC has lost. It's not usually that I can't parse it, but it's like squinting to read something too small - gives me one hell of a headache after 5 or so mins which is why I don't really listen to it regularly.

[inulro.livejournal.com]

radio tuning and shit hardware notwithstanding

I actually have a digital radio so that I can get radio 4 without having to play with the aerial on a daily basis.

Er - six music is nice too.

[inulro.livejournal.com]

Congrats on being the second person on my flist who's been on Today!

Sadly, you've both been on long after I leave the house (and before I get to work, but being the boss won't get my any less lynched for putting the office radio on R4 anyhoo) and I've missed the live experience.

[reddragdiva]

I heart 6 Music. Radio for middle-aged record nerds.

[steer.livejournal.com]

Heh... I'd heard something about that before but only the vague details that the broadcast of the Today program was, in some nuclear-related sense, an official test as to whether there was still civilisation in England.