What's got into Radio 4?
Oct. 13th, 2009 09:21 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jadesfireWe are currently doing scary grown up financial things, and this made me snort in an undignified manner while J was on the phone to the mortgage people:
From The Times: Paxman says Mastermind is Dumbing Down
[John] Humphrys [presenter of Mastermind], who also spoke at the [Cheltenham literary] festival on Saturday, said Mastermind questions were also more difficult than in the past. When told that Paxman disagreed, he said: “Well, deliver this message to him. He’s welcome to test this proposition by appearing as a guest on Celebrity Mastermind.
“We’ll deliberately make the questions a bit easier for him, if he likes. Alternatively, we could have a shoot-out. I could put to him a set of questions chosen at random from the last ten programmes and he could do the same.
Come on, Paxman, if you think you’re hard enough.”
(er...emphasis mine, because that's the bit that made me giggle)
How much would I have loved to have heard him say that? Honestly, what are they feeding them at R4 at the moment?
From The Times: Paxman says Mastermind is Dumbing Down
[John] Humphrys [presenter of Mastermind], who also spoke at the [Cheltenham literary] festival on Saturday, said Mastermind questions were also more difficult than in the past. When told that Paxman disagreed, he said: “Well, deliver this message to him. He’s welcome to test this proposition by appearing as a guest on Celebrity Mastermind.
“We’ll deliberately make the questions a bit easier for him, if he likes. Alternatively, we could have a shoot-out. I could put to him a set of questions chosen at random from the last ten programmes and he could do the same.
Come on, Paxman, if you think you’re hard enough.”
(er...emphasis mine, because that's the bit that made me giggle)
How much would I have loved to have heard him say that? Honestly, what are they feeding them at R4 at the moment?
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Date: 2009-10-13 10:50 am (UTC)Edited for LJ selecting the *wrong* icon.
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Date: 2009-10-13 11:15 am (UTC)That's one of the most terrifying mental images I've had for a long time O.O
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Date: 2009-10-13 11:21 am (UTC)They could totally dramatize this on Radio 4.
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Date: 2009-10-13 11:23 am (UTC)I'm starting to think Radio 4 can do anything. ^_^
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