OK, I did an hour's round table discussion about the hacking/Murdoch affair on a local radio station, alongside a columnist from the Express and Star (much more measured than the bile that rag normally pumps out), my boss Paul (career radio broadcaster) and Dorothy, expert in popular TV.
I have to say that it was an exhilarating and humiliating experience. I got in most of the points I wanted to make (including some satisfying swipes at the Mail and a good deal of leftwing propaganda), and learned things from the others. I was also reminded that I have a voice like Donald Duck with adenoids.
I've done interviews before, including TV: this was far less stressful - it felt like a conversation with friends rather than being on the spot in front of thousands of people.
Having been in the Times Higher, Guardian and The Sword recently, I'm feeling like a complete media whore. More radio please!
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I managed to catch the last 20 mins. Great stuff. Love the way you ended on a Hitler analogy!
Did I? I can't remember. What did I say?
You said that in Hitler's Germany there was no need for him to give the order to liquidate the Jews; it was 'in the culture' and was carried out as a matter of course.
Oh yes, I remember now. Perhaps a tad tasteless but the point's fair enough.
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