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Coming to this Blog tomorrow....the AM Glass Box.

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Eddie Mair | 13:56 UK time, Wednesday, 29 April 2009

In response to suggestions from various bloggers over recent weeks, we're going to try, for a couple of weeks, something new.

The PM Glass Box already gives you the chance to comment after the programme. How would you like the chance to suggest things BEFORE the programme?

We'd like to try the AM Glass Box.

It will appear every morning on the blog. There, having read your paper and listened to your morning radio, you can alert us to various things.

You may have a question about something in the news you would like answered - or better still, direct experience of something topical. Or maybe there's an aspect to a big story you haven't heard explored that you would like to hear.

Just as the PM Glass Box emulates the meeting we have after the show, the AM Glass Box will be like the real meeting we have every day at 11.00, in that all ideas are welcome.

Just like the real meeting, most ideas that are suggested will not make it on air. But we would like to try this to see how it works. It's best that you make your suggestion before 10am. Let's try it.

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  • 1. At 2:19pm on 29 Apr 2009, Big Sister wrote:

    I do believe I suggested something similar a long while back, Eddie (she says, smugly). So I'm glad to see the idea emerge (at last).

    :o)

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  • 2. At 2:23pm on 29 Apr 2009, DI_Wyman wrote:

    Make sure you claim your fiver Big Sis, damn fine idea!

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  • 3. At 2:26pm on 29 Apr 2009, Big Sister wrote:

    Well, a fiver would be a darn sight more useful than a book of Gordon Brown's speeches (though, as it is signed by his Royal Eddiness, I suppose it is more darling than brown ....)

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  • 4. At 2:55pm on 29 Apr 2009, Charlie wrote:



    ...and, one won't be able to be so readily moderated for moving-off topic!

    Although, the mods are cunning...

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  • 5. At 3:18pm on 29 Apr 2009, lordBeddGelert wrote:

    about time too !!

    What about getting Craig Murray on the show to discuss his questioning in the Houses Of Parliament ?

    And getting Jack Straw and Jacqui Smith for their actions and their fatuous defence of 'torture policy'.

    Better late than never...

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  • 6. At 3:21pm on 29 Apr 2009, Richard_SM wrote:


    An AM Glass Box ! I really thought digital radio was here to stay. I'll have to put it out with my father's 8-track.

    Justin Webb's blog page 'Torture Philosophy' has improved enormously. Someone (?) should be credited! I don't need my reading glasses anymore. Might I be so ..bold .. to ask if this improvement can be rolled out across the BBC blogs - or is it just a trial?

    I'll look out for the new AM PM - or AmPam as it could be called.

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  • 7. At 3:34pm on 29 Apr 2009, witchiwoman wrote:

    Oh, I like the sound of that. Well done (Big Sis :D )

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  • 8. At 3:46pm on 29 Apr 2009, GPsOrders wrote:

    This is a great idea as I'm finding it really difficult to work out where to register my annoyance at the one-dimensional piece the Today programme ran about Graduate Recruitment - the man from Highfliers was able to spout misleading 'highlights' from his research whilst John Humphreys lapped it up - can we have a more balanced examination please?

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  • 9. At 3:49pm on 29 Apr 2009, Big Sister wrote:

    Checking back, Witchi, I made my suggestion in May 2007, and it involved people emailing Eddie with stories. In his reply to me, Eddie DID say that they monitored the blog for stories, so I guess the AM Glass Box will make that monitoring a lot easier.

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  • 10. At 3:57pm on 29 Apr 2009, eddiemair wrote:

    Big Sis you are spot on.

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  • 11. At 4:09pm on 29 Apr 2009, Sid wrote:

    What a good idea. Even if it does mean I have to get up earlier.

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  • 12. At 4:13pm on 29 Apr 2009, DI_Wyman wrote:

    Sid, buy a laptop PC and stay in bed all day.

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  • 13. At 4:25pm on 29 Apr 2009, Hesiodos wrote:

    Richard,

    "Justin Webb's blog page 'Torture Philosophy' has improved enormously. Someone (?) should be credited!"
    Or blamed?
    ;-)

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  • 14. At 4:58pm on 29 Apr 2009, U12196018 wrote:

    Big Sis -
    Teacher's Pet! . . Teacher's Pet! . . na na nana nah!

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  • 15. At 4:59pm on 29 Apr 2009, Lady Sue wrote:

    I have noticed that, nearly as soon as the PM Glass Box is put up, comments start appearing even though the idea is to comment about the programme after you've listened to it.

    This is a very good way of dealing with the situation. Well Done Big Sis, Eddie et al.

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  • 16. At 5:01pm on 29 Apr 2009, Frances O wrote:

    What a great idea. A sort of PM which uses listeners' ideas. You could call it, oh, I don't know, aPM.

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  • 17. At 5:06pm on 29 Apr 2009, DI_Wyman wrote:

    or iPM even?
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    Doh!

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  • 18. At 5:07pm on 29 Apr 2009, Lady Sue wrote:

    Anybody got today's Glass Box?

    Yesterday no newsletter, today no Glass Box. What's the world coming to?

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  • 19. At 5:14pm on 29 Apr 2009, DI_Wyman wrote:

    L_S, shoddy, shoddy, shoddy!

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  • 20. At 5:20pm on 29 Apr 2009, Frances O wrote:

    Yers, DI. Preeeecisely.

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  • 21. At 5:21pm on 29 Apr 2009, Frances O wrote:

    re your 17, of course.

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  • 22. At 5:26pm on 29 Apr 2009, Lady Sue wrote:

    I bet they are waiting till the programme is over today before posting it!

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  • 23. At 5:33pm on 29 Apr 2009, Frances O wrote:

    Oooh, whetting our appetites.

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  • 24. At 5:55pm on 29 Apr 2009, The Stainless Steel Cat wrote:

    Come on PM Team! You talk about Fox not carrying a left-wing President's speech live *without* mentioning the channel's famous right-wing bias?

    What's next? A piece asking why the Pope is mysteriously attending Mass?

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  • 25. At 5:58pm on 29 Apr 2009, Frances O wrote:

    What's all this relaxing music stuff, Eric? Big Ben's not being repaired again, is it?

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  • 26. At 5:59pm on 29 Apr 2009, Frances O wrote:

    Cab we have a PM glass box, please, sir?

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  • 27. At 6:04pm on 29 Apr 2009, normanmugabe wrote:

    My automatic.... the magnolia ten yards away dropped its blossoms last week.
    The relaxing sound I'm looking forward to will be the psssssssssss when I flip the lid off a bottle of Belgian beer at 9pm.

    In Republican circles, Mr. Obama is being referred to as Jimmy Carter II

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  • 28. At 6:11pm on 29 Apr 2009, annasee wrote:

    I really HATE the "Sailing By" music. Syrupy treacly (sp?) stuff.Always have to make sure I turn the radio off before it starts at night, otherwise I'm jerked into furious wakefulness again.

    I liked last year's Sounds of Summer when we had quiet noises from someone's hens. They were lovely. Very relaxing.

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  • 29. At 6:12pm on 29 Apr 2009, Lady Sue wrote:

    Frances, I rather liked the relaxing music and would like to request same for The Beach. Give it a sort of 'Bali Hai' feel - though the lads might want 'Hawaii Five O'.

    On second thoughts, it's doomed to failure.

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  • 30. At 6:14pm on 29 Apr 2009, funnyJoedunn wrote:

    Joanna Lumley;

    Katanga my friend!

    Where was patsy?

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  • 31. At 6:14pm on 29 Apr 2009, Lady Sue wrote:

    P.S. to Frances - they are stubbornly not giving us a Glass Box tonight. Maybe someone has broken it?

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  • 32. At 6:26pm on 29 Apr 2009, funnyJoedunn wrote:

    What the hell was all that working/middle class reviewed talking rubbish. How patronising and paternalist of the dyed-in-the-wool middle class BBC.

    Kate, don't waste your energy duck. You'll always be the working class bird I knew. Hows yer mam and dad?

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  • 33. At 6:28pm on 29 Apr 2009, Sid wrote:

    fjd - thanks, made me chuckle ...

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  • 34. At 6:31pm on 29 Apr 2009, funnyJoedunn wrote:

    Hey Sid,

    Nice to know I made someone chukle.

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  • 35. At 6:32pm on 29 Apr 2009, Sid wrote:

    re relaxation:

    1) didn't like the music
    2) did like Stourhead report
    3) didn't like airy fairy cosmic energy faloodle
    4) did like shipping forecast

    So, swings and roundabouts for me - or, to put it another way, fair enough.

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  • 36. At 6:54pm on 29 Apr 2009, U13928940 wrote:

    I agree with Sid. I thought the "relaxing" section would've worked if it were, say 30 seconds ling. To drag it out to three minutes was a bit of a waste, I thought. Just my opinion....

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  • 37. At 7:27pm on 29 Apr 2009, U13879388 wrote:

    Well, I'm still worried about the VOLUME of new mortgage money going up last month, according to the CML, and the number of new mortgages going down, according to the bankers' BBA.

    Putting aside the way the information was presented by the two organisations
    (and the same for some parallel government information) - ways which advanced their interests and neglected gneuinely informing the public, the FACTS are surely worrying.

    Either very rich people are picking up highly priced properties, subsidised by our investment in the banks and in quantitative easing - which lowers interest rates for them

    or....


    Could Nils help?

    Even the increase in the VOLUME of mortgage money, widely BBC reported, turns out to be consistent with the other (self evidently) BAD news from the housing market which shows, given the way we let our economy work, that we are slumping further and further down.



    Nils, what CAN Flanders be talking about when she says the worst is over?


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  • 38. At 7:29pm on 29 Apr 2009, U13879388 wrote:

    Incidentally, re AM-GB, about time, too.

    Long overdue.

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  • 39. At 8:57pm on 29 Apr 2009, Gillianian wrote:

    TRW - I never know what Flanders is talking about - I'm more in tune with Flanders' neighbour, Homer.

    Water, water, everywhere, so let's all have a drink."

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  • 40. At 9:25pm on 29 Apr 2009, gossipmistress wrote:

    I've just woken up. What year is it?

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  • 41. At 9:28pm on 29 Apr 2009, gossipmistress wrote:

    And will the AM Glass box photo have an alarm clock insude......

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  • 42. At 9:35pm on 29 Apr 2009, Chris_Ghoti wrote:

    Gillianian, I prefer Swann.

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  • 43. At 9:51pm on 29 Apr 2009, Gillianian wrote:

    Chris - hmmmm...wallowing in mud sounds about right ;o)

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  • 44. At 9:58pm on 29 Apr 2009, nikki noodle wrote:

    hmm I love sailing by. Am going to have it played as I lie on the rollers, going through the curtain....

    nick

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  • 45. At 10:10pm on 29 Apr 2009, Gillianian wrote:

    Or as Moll Flanders said - I kept kissing frogs looking for a prince.
    Speaking of which....
    Hi, nikki ;o)

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  • 46. At 06:06am on 30 Apr 2009, eddiemair wrote:

    Oops. Yes - sorry about the lack of Glass Box. I definitely created one....but I think I deleted it. Idiot. My apologies. It will return tonight!

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  • 47. At 4:44pm on 30 Apr 2009, Poverty wrote:

    It's amazing how ideas are regurgitated - today's joke about the cats I learnt at school in the 1940s.

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  • 48. At 11:20am on 04 Jun 2009, EnisKay wrote:

    I just went and voted in the European Election.

    At the last European Election I was living in the South East region and I am sure we had the chance to use a PR (proportional representation) system - which gave me the chance to express a preference for more than one party which is what I wanted. This time and now living in the West Midlands it was the 'usual' one cross first past the post (or rather first six past the post system).

    Why has PR disappeared? Does the government think we are now too stupid to use it?

    I was very disappointed and ended up voting for the party I would otherwise have made a second preference.

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  • 49. At 11:23pm on 18 Jun 2009, Richard_SM wrote:

    £100.00

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