Two-headers live

[Stan Drews]

Until now I've been neutral about head-to-head chat on CDR: it works sometimes. However, the current offering has me checking my aerial connections. No doubt the learned contributor (whose name I didn't catch - I came late to the programme) has something to offer but, on this showing, she should not be put in front of a live microphone again without some serious coaching (or a script).

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

She got better as the programme went on - at the start it sounded as if she was trying to remember all the things she'd told herself she must mention (many a new teacher will know the feeling). And credit to AMcG for putting her at her ease - by the time we reached the "Representation" she was much more fluent and was even chuckling at some of his comments.

[Richard Tarleton]

Are you two talking about Anna Picard?

[Nick Armstrong]

Sounded as if Anna Picard had a shocker on the way to the studio (from AMG's opening comment) and so maybe she arrived on air discombobulated and with seconds to spare... I sympathise! Haven't heard this segment yet though.

Stan did you hear Natasha Loges last week, for an example of someone who gets it RIGHT?

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Well, I am

(She of the misheard skull-boring! )

[Stan Drews]

You're being more than fair fhg, but it was still bad radio, particularly at a time when so many of us are clinging to the flotsam of what's left of decent R3 broadcasting.

[Stan Drews]

@M Caliban - yes; this prog still delivers the goods more often than it ploughs - long may it continue.

[Edit] Some cross-posting here. If there had, indeed, been a problem prior to broadcast would it not have been better to let AMcG continue solo? After all, the format and content of the programme had already been predetermined.