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Head of 大象传媒 Radio Scotland, Jeff Zycinski, with a sneak preview of programme plans and a behind-the-scenes glimpse of his life at the helm.

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Northern Ireland Week

  • Jeff Zycinski
  • 25 Nov 06, 11:38 PM

Jeff Zycinski in Belfast

I woke up to Mark Stephen on Out of Doors this morning just as he was linking up with 大象传媒 Radio Ulster's Your Place And Mine programme. I could be wrong, but I'm sure I heard him mock the Belfast presenter for the way they actually prounounce "Northern Ireland". Our plans for a week of joint programming could have ended there and then had we not quickly discovered that we share a similar sense of humour.

This themed week of programmes - leading up to Saint Andrew's Day - came at the suggestion of my colleagues over the water and, in particular one very taltened and persistent programme-maker called Declan McGovern. He's spent months talking to our producers and deciding which programmes should work in partnership.

大象传媒 Radio Ulster listeners will hear these seven days described as 'Scotland Week' while we're calling it 'Northern Ireland' week. When I was talking about this at the staff meeting in Edinburgh last week, someone said it was "just like the Vietnam war". I was baffled until it was explained that the Americans called that conflict the Vietnam War, while their enemies described it as The American War.

"Ah yes, " I said, as the penny dropped, "yes, this is exactly like that. Except this will all be over much more quickly."

"Hmmm, " said another producer, "that's what the Americans thought too. But they got bogged down there for years."

Sometimes you can stretch an analogy just too far.

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