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I did a little rooting around in the 18 Doughty Street archives and found the Vox Politics show that I appeared on this week.
Watch me here (windows media) in all my fat glory. The lager and sausage roll diet is clearly not working.
Posted on December 2nd, 2006 at 11:35am under Blog, bloggers and blogging, Elsewhere, Off Yoghurt, Pooterism, The Blog Digest 2007
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Bloody hell… There’s a risk of this sounding overly bitchy, but that’s the first time I’d seen 18 Doughty Street. It has all the production values of a student TV show from the mid-80s – I half expected to spot a youthful Dexter Fletcher and Julia Sawalha running around in the background.
They aren’t serious about it, are they? The sub-BBC Breakfast male/female presenter pairing, sofas, wobbly cameras, cheesily outdated late-70s Open University programming music, abysmal microphone sound levels… If that’s the future, time to get out the platforms, flares and Bay City Rollers t-shirts…
(You seemed to do well, mind…)
Well, I don’t want to be its staunch defender – I’m sure Iain Dale can do that – but it’s still early days. And it’s an infant medium. It was all very professionally done in the studio I thought (although I’ve never been in a TV studio before).
The director knew what he wanted and the sound levels were more down to wriggling guests than naff technology, I think. They were clearly monitoring the sound because one or two of us had our mics adjusted while off camera. Sure, the production values could be stronger but I don’t know how big the budget is.
I’d definitely go on again – I’ve been asked to go again before Christmas but it’s a question fitting it in. Why not try and swing an invite and have a look yourself? I think you’d do well on it.
Me, the interweb’s poshest blogger (judging from watching my performance on BBC London News that time)? I’d end up making all the Tories there look like they’re in the wrong party, simply by dint of being infinitely better bred than them…
well I thought you were champion Justin. Go on Nosemonkey, do it.
It’s a laugh.
PS. Justin, how did you find that link? I can’t find me, I was last on 29th Nov.
Cheers, Rachel.
As for the link, I was a bit cheeky and bodged the URL – I took the URL for the show on the 29th (it’s here – you’re not on at the beginning, did you come in later?) and changed the ‘29′ to a ‘27′ to see what would happen. As if by magic up it came. Hope they don’t mind.