Awayday 2.
Sorry for not posting any more yesterday. The afternoon session overran, a wedding party arrived next door and it all got a bit confusing!
Our venue was correctly identified on the previous thread....this was our view...
...and here was the room we were in all day...
...it was very nice, and they looked after us very well. Beautiful old building. So old in fact, that in the fire exit signs, the little man is wearing a top hat.
Jack and Vera yesterday
A lot of the day was taken up with what, to anyone else would be rather dreary...us finding new ways of organising ourselves to make our output as good as it can be at a time of budget cuts.
Unrelated to money was a general agreement that Friday Letters should go. No decision has been taken yet, that's for our bosses, and I know they'll want to take YOUR view into consideration. It was felt the slot was anachronistic, given the new ways people can communicate more fully with the programme. We would, of course, keep open our phone line and postal address...indeed we want to be MORE responsive to listeners' ideas and comments. But the traditional Friday slot...which followed a traditional daily slot on PM, we felt was too cumbersome. For example, after our recent interview with Kenny Richey, there was a huge listener response which we reflected the next day on air, rather than wait till the Friday. We did a follow up interview too, which we thought added more value than waiting three days and running some comments in the Letters slot. And of course this blog offers listeners with internet access a much fuller dialogue with other listeners and the programme. But I stress that the letterline would remain open, and we would listen to comments and ideas there every day as we always do, and, as with the Kenny Richey experience, use them on air as appropriate.
So what do YOU think?
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