Tudor Hughes wrote:


At 0030 it was Helen Willetts, who not for the first time had
difficulty in supressing giggles. You're doing a weather forecast for
Radio 4, Helen, not for ShaggitFM, for goodness' sake. The day's
extremes were mechanically delivered and not put into any context, as
usual these days. There cannot be any pressure of scheduling at this
time of the night and there is time for a rather more discursive
approach, as there once was. (Come in, Bob Prichard).


You're probably referring to the slot that was titled "The Weather Commentary".
That was a very useful 5-minute programme presented in a sober scientific way
and the presenter didn't get in the way of the information. It was very much in
the mould of what Radio 4 is usually very good at. The present day
pseudo-celebrity style of presentation that we often now get doesn't fit at all
well. Fortunately, with all of the material now available on the web, the DIY
approach to weather forecasting is much more reliable than anything on the
broadcast media, especially for site-specific interests.

--
Norman Lynagh
Tideswell, Derbyshire
303m a.s.l.