Thanks for the posting. . Good point about the timing. Hadn't noticed, but you are quite right. Paul Barclay has been quite unhelpful in past programs - negative on environmental issues in the past. He likes "celebrity interviewees", but will not allow negative questions from the public. . Cheers Denis
Don't know about the negative bit - but can be a narrow,narrow focus which allows no other comment...so this could work out as negative. Then there is the time. By the time sundry experts have their say there is little time for Australia to talk. Don't listen any more.
If you want the luxury of having your say in full, then the place is the late night/early morning talk backs of ABC's Local Radio. http://www.abc.net.au/overnights/
Problem is that at that hour, you can never be sure how many are in the listening audience & awake! And, going on the callers, they are never or rarely ever young. But the geographic range is right across the country. The classic to prove this was the night that Trevor Chappell plotted the national highway around Australia. What a demonstration of who was listening where!
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Thanks for the posting.
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Good point about the timing.
Hadn't noticed, but you are quite right.
Paul Barclay has been quite unhelpful in past programs - negative on environmental issues in the past. He likes "celebrity interviewees", but will not allow negative questions from the public.
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Cheers
Denis
Don't know about the negative bit - but can be a narrow,narrow focus which allows no other comment...so this could work out as negative. Then there is the time. By the time sundry experts have their say there is little time for Australia to talk. Don't listen any more.
ReplyDeleteIf you want the luxury of having your say in full, then the place is the late night/early morning talk backs of ABC's Local Radio. http://www.abc.net.au/overnights/
Problem is that at that hour, you can never be sure how many are in the listening audience & awake! And, going on the callers, they are never or rarely ever young. But the geographic range is right across the country. The classic to prove this was the night that Trevor Chappell plotted the national highway around Australia. What a demonstration of who was listening where!