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1. At 04:21 PM on 23 Mar 2007, Gillian wrote:

   Wonderful.....I take back my e-mail about leaving the newsletter alone.....I want this sort of interview every day instead!
   What a start to the weekend.....the voices of Eddie and the Lovely Marc, together, on the same clip....ooooooooh!

2. At 04:38 PM on 23 Mar 2007, Big Sister wrote:

   Great idea, Eddie. And Marc clearly needs to do more of it: "It's probably the most constructive thing I've done all day".

   
   Hear you next week, Marc!

   Stage 2: Letting us in on the glassbox discussions? Is that a 'yes' Eddie?

3. At 04:39 PM on 23 Mar 2007, Susan Orty-Boyden wrote:

   The ´óÏó´«Ã½ - it's what you do.

4. At 04:44 PM on 23 Mar 2007, Anne P. wrote:

   Nice to hear Marc. Hope you've found that extra 25% -100% by now - you have about another 11 minutes by my reckoning.

   Incidentally the clip wouldn't load at first, had to kill it and try again. Don't know if that was due to excess demand or just down to me!
   

5. At 05:06 PM on 23 Mar 2007, Perky wrote:

   It's good to know that you lot sail as close to the wind in your jobs as I do in mine. Lovely to hear Marc -Eddie; surely you have something better to do so close to the programme starting? Hair? Make-up? Choosing a rugby shirt?

6. At 05:08 PM on 23 Mar 2007, Aperitif wrote:

   Now I'm really heartbroken -- I've spent ages trying to get my Realplayer to run the Wii clip this afternoon. It works fine for everything else but, a couple of months back, gave up playing anything Eddie posts and just won't budge. No matter, thunk I, when I couldn't get it going -- I heard the programme last night anyway. But this??? How will I ever hear this without it???

   Any tips anyone? (Sob).

7. At 05:28 PM on 23 Mar 2007, wrote:

   Did I imagine it?

   Did the COMMENTS link against each of today's threads briefly show the number of comments per thread??

   Sun must be over the yard-arm. I'll get me coat.

   Fifi

8. At 05:32 PM on 23 Mar 2007, Eddie Mair wrote:

   Big Sister (2)...you never know. Once the Blog Glass Box starts...anything could happen.

9. At 05:38 PM on 23 Mar 2007, Perky wrote:

   What a great report by Hugh tonight and with a moving addition from Jeremy Bowen. It's that sort of reporting that makes you stop what you're doing and really, really listen. Thanks to you both.

10. At 05:46 PM on 23 Mar 2007, The New Blog Prince aka Marc wrote:

    I really didn't think my interview by Eddie was actually going to appear here.

    if I'd known, I would have made myself unavailable for interview - thereby echoing 90% of the people we approached today

11. At 06:04 PM on 23 Mar 2007, wrote:

    That's great, Eddie! I think it's a wonderful idea :-) I'd suggest that it's not something to do every day. In fact, I would think it would work best as a non-scheduled thing, just done on the spur of the moment. That way, we can get an idea of the true working day in the hive that is Television Centre! Maybe you can expand the base of intervieweees to include people from *gasp* other programmes who you happen to spot in the corridors,...

12. At 06:20 PM on 23 Mar 2007, wrote:

    Is it me or Jane Austen looks like Kate Winsley (or is it the other war around?)
    

13. At 06:20 PM on 23 Mar 2007, Rachel wrote:

    Absolutely, Perky (9). One of those times when my children think I've lost the plot completely because I'm standing motionless in the middle of the room staring at the radio. I heard Hugh on Feedback at lunchtime trying to explain why he keeps going back. With so many journalists having lost their lives in dangerous places around the world this year, and Alan Johnston still missing, I can only express huge gratitude that extraordinary people like Hugh and Jeremy are prepared to continue bringing their outstanding work into my kitchen.

    As to Eddie and Marc's exchange - I think Marc needs to take some lessons from George Osbource in how to avoid answering a question.

14. At 06:27 PM on 23 Mar 2007, wrote:

    Winslet, even!

15. At 06:58 PM on 23 Mar 2007, Jenny Koralek wrote:

    Hugh Sykes 23 March specially but always - just to thank him and all the others who send in these vibrant heart cracking accounts of 'life' in Iraq and for voicing out loud today what I say every day how do the two B's sleep at night
    I am sure I am not the only mother/grandmother who identifies every time with the deaths of the children of whatever age. My own young adult son died recently tragically and I feel that woman's universal bond particularly deeply.
    

16. At 07:01 PM on 23 Mar 2007, Gillian wrote:

    Perky (9) and Rachel (13) All I can do is echo your sentiments. Yesterday's recording of the bomb exploding was chilling, to say the least, and tonight's report had me in tears. As Hugh said, how do the politicians sleep? I wish someone could pack up Hugh's reports and send them to Mr Blair, Mr. Bush and all their supporters.

17. At 07:16 PM on 23 Mar 2007, Humph wrote:

    Fifi (7) are you sure that it was today's threads? During recent returns to September my heart has risen at the sight of "comments counters" only to realise that I had returned to "The Goode Olde Dayse"

    H.

    (Why do old-ie signs end all words with "e"?)

18. At 01:42 AM on 24 Mar 2007, Val P wrote:

    Humphe - don'te knowe, doe youe?

19. At 05:58 PM on 24 Mar 2007, Frances O wrote:

    zefrog, yes, it DOES!!!!!!!

    But I'm sure Jane wouldn't have worn such an inordinate amount of rouge.

    As for the Eric/Marc interview, splendid stuff. Marc, you'll never be a politician, but you're funny and intelligent - oh, you'll definitely never be a politician.

    Nice voice.

    Humphe - They are trying to look like Shakespeare or Chaucer. It's silly.

    Some of the 'e's at the end of words were sounded in Sh and Ch's day. Check the scansion. They'd have been pronounced approximately the same as the unstressed vowel in 'a' and 'the', or the one in 'ahead'. It's called a schwa.

    I remember it well as a young girl.

    No, OK, I admit, I done a degree in Eng Lang and Linguistics and three of my favourite courses were historical phonology (don't ask), Middle English and Early Modern English. (Hi, Lochinvar)

    So this 'yee oldee bookee shoppee' stuff is just... well, stuff. And nonsense.

20. At 08:12 PM on 24 Mar 2007, wrote:

    O Frances! - "I done a degree"

    You really did spend a time in Norn Iron didn't you?

21. At 03:18 AM on 25 Mar 2007, Frances O wrote:

    Jenny K, I've just read your post and I'm so very sorry that something so terrible happened to you.

    I wonder often whether the children of the children I knew in Iraq long ago have survived, and the two little girls who are now women have had tragedies in their lives.

    
    RJD - you spotted the deliberate mistake. Yes, Belfast. I loved it.

    
    Crikey, I'm coming across as a trouble-spot junkie. Not at all. Just two important times in my life. Happy ones, too.