@mralistairgreen This is 👌- we need to hear Derek doing the advert voice-ups you get in the middle of podcasts
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Joshua Thorpe 🇫🇷 🇬🇧
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Joshua Thorpe 🇫🇷 🇬🇧
@JoshThorpeBBC
Senior business journalist @bbcnews - French and British. Improviser @buffetimprov.
Maidenhead via Nîmes شامل ہوئے Mayıs 2013
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@anon_opin On the contrary, 6music has evolved for the better. The 2 hours of deranged jungle is great, as is pretty much anything Jamz Supernova plays on a Saturday!
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The downfall of 6Music is baffling. Going from a station with a clear identity and knowing who it's audience was to the current jumble sale is madness. Not to mention MAH playing 2 hours of deranged jungle during the day. Utter nonsense.
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What are the iconic covers that outstripped the original? Amy Winehouse's Valerie is one, Johnny Cash's Hurt, Buckley's Hallelujah.
johnny v5@generativist
@TheStalwart what's your favorite cover? I bet you have a good answer and a wealth of opinions. (i'm going with: carmalita, adam duritz and placebo, where is my mind)
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@stephenkb @DPJHodges Ok fair enough,I get your point. I just wanted to give some behind the scenes perspective from Swindon South, because you mentioned it specifically. The rest of the coverage is above my pay grade tbh.
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@JoshThorpeBBC @DPJHodges Ok, well, to repeat: my point wasn't about Swindon South solely - it was about the absence of counts through choice later on in the programme. If that hadn't happened, I wouldn't have mistaken a technical issue for an editorial call.
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1) This is a nice, classy speech. 2) This is what was lost on a lot of the election night telly, where there was far too much chat and not enough counts.
Martin Booth@beardedjourno
Thangam Debbonaire says that representing Bristol has been an “incredible honour”
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@stephenkb @DPJHodges As I said at the start, I don't know about those. I was just giving my experience as a producer at Swindon South, it wasn't an editorial issue there, I am not making any broader point about BBC coverage
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@JoshThorpeBBC @DPJHodges And I've said, okay, I get that there was a technical challenge there, but that wasn't why the TV programme missed Bristol Central. Or Melksham and Devizes. Or Waveney Valley.
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@stephenkb @DPJHodges I was only responding to your point about Swindon South as I was the producer there
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@DPJHodges @JoshThorpeBBC But it's just straightforwardly disingenuous to ignore that I am saying 'I think there should have been more counts on TV' and to go 'well, of the many counts we didn't show on TV we didn't show by accident' and then talk about radio.
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@stephenkb @DPJHodges I didn't say that though? We were always planning to take the whole count live, a sound issue at the start prevented that
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@DPJHodges @JoshThorpeBBC Indeed. Fine to say 'I think interviews and chat are better choices than counts on election night'. Maybe it was, I accept that 'person who rewatches BBC election night programming the weekend after so he can enjoy it without having to report on it' is a niche use case.
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@DPJHodges @stephenkb Yes and as I mentioned we had a live feed up, which cut out due to a sound issue, which happens, it's live broadcast, it wasn't an editorial decision to miss the start of the declaration
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@JoshThorpeBBC @stephenkb Joshua, I think this perfectly underlines the problem with your coverage, and your attitude to it. We didn’t want interviews with the candidates giving their assessment of the results. We wanted the actual results themselves.
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@stephenkb @DPJHodges You said the BBC "didn't cover Swindon South". I refute that, we covered it extensively on TV and radio, and did 3 live interviews with Robert Buckland on different outlets. BTW we also covered Swindon North on both TV and radio
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@JoshThorpeBBC @DPJHodges I feel like you are missing my objection here, which is not just about the one count (I mean, there was a second marginal *in Swindon* that didn’t get on air either!) but about the absence of counts through the night.
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@DPJHodges @stephenkb Well we did deal with it, the sound issue got resolved and we went live to the declaration and speeches as soon as we could.
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@JoshThorpeBBC @stephenkb But with respect, isn’t being able to deal with technical issues an important part of being the national broadcaster
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@stephenkb My point is it wasn't an editorial decision not to get the start of the count. There was an issue with the sound on the live feed at the start which meant we missed the first bit of the declaration, but we still covered it. No idea about the other 2 though
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@JoshThorpeBBC Right, so you...missed the count, like I said. I appreciate that it is a technical challenge, but that isn't why you did not have Bristol Central or Waveney Valley on air either.
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@stephenkb We did, I was the producer there. There was a technical issue with our line dropping out right at the start of the declaration, but we got the first live interview with Robert Buckland straight after
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But to classlessly return to grousing about the election night TV - the BBC didn’t even cover the count from *Swindon South*, the first marginal to declare!
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I got to vote in 2 elections on the same day. In person in the UK and by internet for the 2nd round of the French election. I will never ever take that for granted. Democracy is a wonderful thing!
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@SoVeryBritish You're being a bit generous with spring here!
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British seasons:
Winter: October to mid-April
Spring: Mid-April to mid-June
Summer: Mid-June to end of June
Autumn: July to October (with a summer reprise for 3 days in August)
Winter is also free to make cameo appearances in spring, summer and autumn, whenever it fancies, and it will.
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@SimonCalder It's got to be Tower Bridge, when the bascules open up!
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Good morning from Prague, where the medieval Charles Bridge is part of the tourism fabric.
Your favourite city bridge*, please?
(* Avignon permitted, even though it doesn’t quite straddle the Rhône)
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Macron is going to host Scholz for dinner in Paris tonight (with spouses, at a restaurant). Far from me to suggest France needs to exact revenge on Germany for its last bout of hospitality, but some might think that...
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Is it me or are the beer prices at Manchester Airport a touch steep? Almost £9 for a Doom Bar? 🤯
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@SimonCalder Gibraltar, where you can just walk into town!
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Airport links.
In Luxembourg, Boston and Vermont you get a free bus into town after your flight. In many other places, though, airline passengers are penalised:
Luton Dart: £4.90 for 1.2 miles
Edinburgh tram: an extra £5.50 for the final half-mile.
Others?
independent.co.uk/travel/news-an…
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