It is a lie! Why?

[Blotto]

A deceit, or perhaps conceit, rather than a lie, surely?

'Conceit' is a kind and a suitable word, I think.

[french frank]

Anyway I do recommend the Ianucci interviews (the four that are left) which I found more congenial than the burbling stream-of-consciousness of SF this morning (although there are ... quite interesting nuggets in the flow of words)

I wondered (as in wonderment) about AI's appearance. Some years ago I found on the internet a spoof he'd written about the Kenyon Radio 3 (called A Chorus of Disapproval). It ridiculed most of the things that I would have imagined he would have ridiculed about today's Radio 3.

We put it up on our website (since it was already on someone else's site and therefore 'out there' - but it occurred to me that we ought to ask for permission. I wrote to - I think it was AI's agent - and got a curt response saying: No you can't. Take it down immediately - which we did . I just can't find any trace anywhere ...

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

so was Goebbels full of conceits or just one big one?


Doublethink: To tell deliberate lies while genuinely believing in them, to forget any fact that has become inconvenient, and then when it becomes necessary again, to draw it back from oblivion for just so long as it is needed.

[Flosshilde]

All such programmes are like that - the guests on Private Pleasures & Desert Island Discs surely aren't sitting there while the music is played - that's just slotted in afterwards.

[french frank]

I think it was the little conspiracy that the guests were meeting Rob each morning to have a chat, rather than doing all the week's recordings together.

[Bryn]

Horror of horrors, Through the Night's presentation is also recorded in advance of the broadcasts.

[Flosshilde]

I think it was the little conspiracy that the guests were meeting Rob each morning to have a chat, rather than doing all the week's recordings together.

Possibly a little naive to imagine that the guest of the week would happily trot along to Broadcasting House (or wherever the programme is recorded) once a day for 10-15 minutes.

[french frank]

Possibly a little naive to imagine that the guest of the week would happily trot along to Broadcasting House (or wherever the programme is recorded) once a day for 10-15 minutes.

So, just a little joke to pretend that that's what was happening?

[Blotto]

So was Goebbels full of conceits or just one big one?

You're talking about the guest on a mid-morning chat show letting on that it's pre-recorded. You don't really think citing Goebbels is a reference which helps to support your point? but also

Come on, now!

[Nick Armstrong]

Horror of horrors, Through the Night's presentation is also recorded in advance of the broadcasts.

[french frank]

Ignore Bryn - he doesn't believe in Father Christmas either ...

[pastoralguy]

Possibly a little naive to imagine that the guest of the week would happily trot along to Broadcasting House (or wherever the programme is recorded) once a day for 10-15 minutes.

My feelings exactly. Can you imagine the howls of protest if the BBC was paying for a star who didn't live in London to commute or stay in a hotel?!

If Andrew McGregor can record editions of his ' Summer CD Review' then it's ok to record a small segment on a show that is derided no matter who is presenting. (I sometimes feel that if Beethoven was presenting any of the morning shows then certain individual would STILL find fault!)

[teamsaint]

Horror of horrors, Through the Night's presentation is also recorded in advance of the broadcasts.

On a bad day, I sometimes wonder if the footy results are too.......

[Serial_Apologist]

I'm sorry to have to report, having been on several, that many of the live jazz broadcasts are deliberately pepped up in the audience applause department to create an impression of greater enthusiasm. You would never know that.

[Beef Oven!]

On a bad day, I sometimes wonder if the footy results are too.......

They used to be, but something went wrong as from last season.