Sax Appeal...
I do like it when the music on the show moves people in different ways, I just didn't expect it to move two members of my production team to chase each other around the building during a live show!
It was Yakety Sax that did it. Obviously when you hear the track and realise it's the Benny Hill theme then you can see why they did it.
Ian, one of our audio guys and Oliver, who answers the phones were doing the running. What I can't understand is that they are two of the youngest members of the team and probably two of the youngest people in the entire building - they weren't even born when Benny Hill was on telly! Where did they learn that from?
Are they spending their evenings watching Benny Hill clips on Youtube (Dear God I hope not!) or is it something about the 'dum dum diddle diddle' of the tune that makes you involuntary chase each other around the room?
I suspect they may be suffering from Benny Hill syndrome. If they start making inappropriate comments around women and walking around with lewd expressions on their faces then I'll let you know.
Comment number 1.
At 30th Mar 2009, norriemaclean wrote:At least you kept your professional standards up........and reached for the camera and started chasing them!
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Comment number 2.
At 30th Mar 2009, Scotch Get wrote:Bryan,
S'lang as they don't start slappin' ye oan the heid!
(That haircut is rather severe). >8-D
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Comment number 3.
At 30th Mar 2009, Glen Miller wrote:That used to happen in my office before they brought in the random drug testing.
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Comment number 4.
At 30th Mar 2009, Scotch Get wrote:Give them something constructive to do.
Like keeping the playlists up to date!
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Comment number 5.
At 30th Mar 2009, norriemaclean wrote:Scotch it is actually the link on the blog page that is wrong, that link is not updated but the lists are under the play again bit if you see what i mean
/programmes/b0079fy9
click on the date and the list is then below it.
It was Danielle that found this out and I am pretty sure it applies to all the Radio Scotalnd programmes now.
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Comment number 6.
At 30th Mar 2009, norriemaclean wrote:Having said that of course I note the young chap on the right could do with a trim and does not appear to be wearing a tie!
Dear JZ why oh why oh why etc
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Comment number 7.
At 30th Mar 2009, Scotch Get wrote:Where is his tie ?
Where is his shirt ?!?
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Comment number 8.
At 30th Mar 2009, Scotch Get wrote:#5
Thanks, Norrie. Speaking of Danielle, where is she hiding?
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Comment number 9.
At 30th Mar 2009, norriemaclean wrote:One of these people that is in the fortunate position of being busy at the moment I suspect!
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Comment number 10.
At 31st Mar 2009, Alan_from_Aberdour wrote:Is it just me or does Norrie's advice at #5 not work for tonight's show - the playlist has yet to appear when I click the date.
Those Benny Hill boys are slackers, eh?
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Comment number 11.
At 31st Mar 2009, norriemaclean wrote:Alan - probably not up until tomorrow sometime at the earliest!
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Comment number 12.
At 31st Mar 2009, Jim Frae Erskine wrote:It wouldn't have happened if you'd been playing Old Shep.
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Comment number 13.
At 31st Mar 2009, DC wrote:Not sure what Sir John Reith would have made of this. Why, they're not even wearing bow-ties!
DC
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Comment number 14.
At 31st Mar 2009, Glen Miller wrote:It's appalling. Now who's responsible for upholding public standards? The Home Secretary?...... aw never mind.....
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Comment number 15.
At 1st Apr 2009, ProducerMandi wrote:Hi there,
Here's a note from my hardworking colleague Alan who's responsible for the Radio Scotland website.
'As you correctly point out, the location of the playlists has recently changed. The reason for this is so that all the playlists for each show will be available after the seven day Listen Again period, which is what we have traditionally offered. This concept, is in line with the rest of the ´óÏó´«Ã½ and the idea is to make content such as playlists available long after broadcast.
I appreciate this is irritating when you are used to finding the playlists in a particular place, but I hope now we have cleared up where they are, and why they are now attached to the programme episode date, this will prove more valuable long-term.
The ´óÏó´«Ã½ websites are consistently being worked on to try and help improve functionality, enjoyment and to provide richer, deeper, content. I appreciate that the process is not also easy, or clear why changes are being made but it’s with the best of intentions that they are developed.'
Alan Braidwood,
Radio Scotland Online
I hope this clears things up and let us know your thoughts on how it's working. The great thing is that it means that archive playlists will be kept beyond 7 days.
Producer Mandi
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Comment number 16.
At 1st Apr 2009, Scotch Get wrote:Great!
Now we have to ensure that Gene Clark, Lyle Lovett and Jake Thackray appear on future playlists!!
>8-D
........and 'Burlesque' by Family........
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Comment number 17.
At 2nd Apr 2009, CaptRamius wrote:#15
Alan
Many, many thanks for this - it's made a huge difference, enabling:
and
Couple of things that would make it stellar:
1) Improved reliability of posting the playlist (we've had episode that have taken days, and some that haven't appeared at all)
2) Adding date data to the Episode List RDF, so it's easier to access a particular day's playlist without screenscraping the lot
3) Differentiating between episode instances that contain the playlist, and those that don't (ie the regional variants)
and the one thing that please, please, *PLEASE* don't change: the 'artist - track' format of the playlist. I presume it's static text, so any new format would require continued support of the old one
Of course, if the whole thing could be completely knocked into the stratosphere by providing a consumable feed of track data (artist/track/timestamp data elements would be perfect), or even a last.fm feed. 6Music manage it:
so there must be some ´óÏó´«Ã½ code on a shelf somewhere to do it.
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