In case you haven't found this, Jim Bacon, a name that will be
familiar to many of us over a certain age, is doing an occasional
stint on the Mo Dutta BBC Radio 2 Saturday show.

Mo used to have a quiz (phone-in) around 0735, but when the various
'scandals' blew up in the middle of last year, they were stopped, and
the slot was filled for some time by a travel information slot.

Then late last autumn, on alternate Saturdays, up popped said Jim
Bacon to talk about the weather. In the beginning, he seemed to be a
bit 'nonplussed' by Mr. Dutta's brand of 'humour' (and I don't always
appreciate it), but cleverly, the information about the background to
current weather events has been filtered in & expanded.

This morning's insert was particularly good I thought, and showed what
can be done by someone with deep meteorological knowledge AND the
background in broadcast journalism.

If you want to 'Listen Again', use this link .....

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/shows/dutta/

about 1h 35 mins into the programme (i.e. around 0735)

It reminded me of the inserts that Philip Eden used to do on BBC Radio
Bedfordshire of the 1980s for those that could hear same, but without
the jokes!

In my experience, there is an audience for this sort of thing, and Jim
is showing how it should/could be done.

(and yes, I am biased: I worked alongside him at London Weather Centre
and am a huge fan!)

Martin.


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