What Am I Like?
Imagine you invited a friend to tell you about your strengths and weaknesses as a chum. Or what if you asked your son or daughter to give it to you straight as regards your parenting skills? And just suppose you asked a colleague to tell you if you were any good at your job.
Do you think they would be honest? Would they sugar-coat the truth? Maybe.
But reading between the lines, you might also learn something about yourself too. Could you handle that?
Well that's the premise of a new conversation format we're devloping with the production team in Inverness. It has the working title 'What Am I Like?" but so far there's no confirmed line-up of guests. Feel free to make some suggestions.
The idea was inspired by part of Tom Morton's new series Drinking for Scotland. In the first programme, in which Tom embarks on 30 days of abstinence from booze, he interviews his own wife about his drinking habits. Susan is a practising G.P. in Lerwick, so her opinions have that added element of medical know-how.
If you heard the programme (which is still available on the BBC iPlayer) then you'll know that Susan was very careful with her answers. Sometimes, she says, Tom does drink too much...but not as much as some other people she knows. She believes Tom is interested in alcohol for reasons well beyond its power to intoxicate and that's why he writes books about whisky. She also mentions one particular incident when he drank so much at the Gaelic MOD that he was still incoherent when he returned home.
All this on national radio of course. He's a brave man.
So have a think about this idea. If you had to interview three people about yourself - knowing it was for broadcast - who would you choose?
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JZ, Better a quiet death than a public misfortune...
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madmac
I agree...you wouldn't catch me revealing anything personal about myself on the radio or a website...doh!
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L.O.L.
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I for one would like to know what I'm like and I suppose I would like it if what I'm like is something to like rather than something to dislike but I think we're all like that or at least all the people I like are like that and I like that because it's comparing like with like and after a while it's likely you get a liking for that and I liken that liking to what I'm like.
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Perhaps Tom has been watching the new Ricky Gervais film - Invention of Lying?
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I enjoyed the programme, but speaking as someone who has had problems with alcohol very recently it seemed that both Tom and Dr Morton were being fairly restrained!
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I would suggest inviting The Rt. Hon. Lord George Foulkes of Cumnock P.C., B.Sc., J.P.
His comments on the conduct of General Sir Richard Dannatt GCB, CBE, MC would prompt many to ask His Lordship; "Whit urr you like?"
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I'm not sure I like the idea at all. I can't imagine it would produce anything other than a toned-down polished version of reality unless there were to be some real enmity between commentator and commentee... And in the latter case it's an unseemly bloodsport which is perhaps best not aired. I can't see the point in this unless it's really about salaciousness and ratings... ;-)
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