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Well, Eddie wins (for me) as joint Chairman of "Any Questions/Any Answers".
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Re: Any Answers
Oh who on earth let this anti BBC dork on the air.
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Re: Above - I was referring to the caller and not to Eddie
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jonnie: Eddie handled him with aplomb, didn't he? Grace under pressure and complete charm. He can come to my gaff for fish, chips and champagne any time.
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Yes Lady_Sue what a lovely way to put it.
'Grace under pressure and complete charm'
You also have a lovely way with words.
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I love it when they start reading word from word.
I laughed out loud when Eddie asked him if he was reading it - it was just so obvious ;-)
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I shall now look forward to listening to Any Questiions, not just for the challenging (and frustrating ) ideas but now for Eddie.s lovely accent and language but for the skill, tact and humour he uses for this programme
without loosing any of the seriousness when addressing the issues. Great work Is this going to be an alternate chair ?
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Thankyou jonnie, very kind.
Yes, I laughed too. He is a master, isn't he?
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Mind you, Eddies 'Eurovision humour' went over the head of the caller from Israel!
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He was probably just so pleased to have gotten through.
I know we "shouldn't really" be using this thread to chat about Any Questions/ Answers but... I did applaud the caller from Israel's comment about proportional representation because we also have it in Oz and it's a nightmare.
You vote (it's compulsory there) for a candidate/party you want to get in, they don't quite make it so they "donate" their votes to the party THEY want, thereby taking away your control of your own vote. Over there, the public keep calling for 'first past the post'.
I'm sure I've explained that badly (and after your kind compliment above) but that's what it seemed to be like to me.
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Someone hand me sick-bag, please!
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Oh it was any answers was it?
I thought it was down the line with Gary Bellamy.
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fJd 11, C'mon, he's a real master.....something.
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David,
I was referring to the comments.
PS, Johnnie, why don't you use a frying pan/grill/ oven like every normal dork?
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Gawd almighty, I did get off the wrong side of the couch this afternoon!
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How could you not giggle? Peter York telling the story about Tara P-T 'not going with a man who didn't turn left at the entrance' and then talking about decimation not being enough decimation - was this about first-class flights, or the 80s style perks in general, btw? - I got a bit distracted by the TP-T story and the washing-up.
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Did the presenter just mention a poll about knobbly knees,
or was it just my ineptitude with accents?
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Yikes. I know my neighbours can be bad, but not as bad as some iPM listeners'.
btw, DI, you jammy so-and-so, first you have a holiday and now international fame on iPM.
Good for you and Mrs DI.
(and you've got a lovely voice)
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Oh, and what's David Archer doing moonlighting on iPM?
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Am I too late - my nieghbours collect red elastic bands dropped by the postie and puts them in a jar on the doorstep. I daren't ask why!
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Thanks Frances O,! BTW Son #3 back from OZ with a few Macquaries related photos!
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Eddie knows, jane
;o)
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Thanks Frances O - should have known better...
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DI, thank you and thank him.
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Yup. Edward did good. "Never mind the rather outspoken audience - you lot (the 4 panelists) are going to behave!
Ken Clarke, Ed Balls et al - I could almost feel them blanching!
I didn't hear Any Answers - did UKIP exercise their right to reply? lol
And so to iPM "Like Coronation Street on Speed". How many of us know out neighbours?
Well that "taught us" - the Poll question. 75%? Nicely done DI Wyman. Nicely done, Sir.
Well well. 75%?
Though thinking back on my own day - any impartial observer would think I knew a lot of people in the area. And that aint quite true. But I do know a lot of my neighbours to say hello to.
Everything was "on Speed" tonight. Hmm. Processing - processing..........
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I listened to the results of your poll tonight re 'Do you know your neighbours?' and my immediate reaction when you read out the results for the various parts of the UK was that Northern Ireland did not get a mention. Does that mean no-one from Northern Ireland participated in your poll or was it restricted to UK mainland only? For the record, I know several of my neighbours, because I made it my business to get to know them when I first moved to my present address and I now look after two neighbouring houses when their owners go off on holiday; I water their plants and make sure nothing is left outside their houses which would alert anyone to their absence. My parents were always good neighbours themselves, so I like to think I am continuing their good example.
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Well said DIWyman!!
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You can't have more decimation. It is the destruction of 10 per cent.
Just saying.
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I listened to both AQ and AA.
AQ was brilliant from the intro onwards - Eddie reminding everyone of whether the panellists been in trouble with the Telegraph. Then there were several plugs for PM - including one from Ken Clarke! Talking of which, I liked Ken's quip that MPs sit by their phones between 4:30 and 5 dreading a call from The Telegraph...
Although if a paper starts probing into MPs business dealings and 'moonlighting', he might not be so chirpy...
Interesting batch of comments, especially the ones on the BNP chap invited to a party at Buckingham Palace (loved someone's quip to sit Nick Griffin between the Archbishop of York and a Gurkha...)
And talking of the BNP, one of their candidates did phone in to give his 2p worth...
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(7) Hilary AB: As Eddie himself said at the end of both programs, J. Dimbleby will be back in his usual spot. So this was just a stand-in. But it was well handled, although I thought the audience were a good deal more exuberant than usual. Which was fair enough considering the questions. Let's hope there will be more occasions for Eddie to do this program if that is what he would want for himself.
Try as I may, I couldn't raise much enthusiasm for the chosen poll question, although it was nicely done. I thought there were deeper and more relevant questions put up by other bloggers. An opportunity missed or a mirror well and truly held up to the nation?..
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Re: Cossackgirl,
Eddie is the stand in for AQ and AA sinse Nick Clarke sadly died in November 2006.
He normally tries to blog from the train - but even with his trusty iphone he obviously didn't get around to it.
Here's a taster to illustrate what I mean :-
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/pm/2007/05/signing_off_now.shtml
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If you have 100 soldiers, and you decimate them, you execute 1 in 10 - 10 soldiers die.
You then have 90 soldiers. If you decimate them, you execute 1 in 10 - 9 soldiers die.
You then have 81 soldiers.
Is that not more decimation?
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I had my nose cauterised last week,
now I'm down half of a nostril.
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Jonnie (32) I could barely make a CALL from he train I was on. Not only no wifi, but the 3g signal barely existed outside stations. I had planned to do a live phono into PM, but attempts at test calls before 17.28 all failed. I remember driving round very remote parts of Norway last year...for hundreds of miles on twisty roads miles from anywhere, and never losing 3G. We don't seem to have it between major towns and cities!
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Eddie,
I'm not technical and totally ignorant on these things. However, I do believe I heard a tucked away interview with someone in the know about the huge rise in the use of the Internet who was saying, with the web system already under strain, we will more than likely see the service not being able to cope with demand due to lack of investment by ISPs. Don't know if this had something to do with your experience the other day. Perhaps an Item for ipm? I say this because you cited your experience of Norway where Internet use would be hugely less - wouldn't it? therefore more space for users?
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Eddie - I could never get a signal with Orange at Liverpool Street Station! In my department at work I can get a Vodafone signal but you need to go into the room opposite to get an O2 signal. I thought we're supposed to be the country that has embraced mobile phone technology like no other. Oh if only there was a radio programme that could look into this....
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Ahh I see Eddie, - and I wasn't trying to make out that you hadn't tried.
I appreciate the 3G coverage and as an o2 user I know how patchy it can be around here and most of the New forest.
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Re; funnyJoedunn,
I'm not sure whether you were referring to ISP and Internet connection speeds.
If so, iPM did an item on that back in December 2007 entitled 'Fraudband Britain. http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/ipm/2007/12/fraudband_britain.shtml
It may be interesting to conduct the experiment again 18 Months later and see if things have significantly improved,
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There was a wonderful rumour for a while that one of the places in the UK where one got no signal on cellphones sold by a particular company was within half-a-mile or so in all directions from that company's headquarters building.
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32. Jonnie: thank you for that. Then Eddie is a much more familiar presence at AQs than I knew, which is good for all of us. He still said it's Dimbleby next time.
Where does Charlie hang out most? His question has just been used on "The World this Weekend" in an interview with the LibDem Speaker candidate Alan Beith. They did say "Charlie from our PM blog" so we are all read by a wider audience than I personally imagined, but then I am relatively new. Still, a bit of spit and polish, eh, eh, and well done that man.
I'll go see if he is celebrating on the Beach!
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Correction to my (41). Charlie has left his question for Shaun on the thread "Can you help this man?" which was for that precise purpose.
Still, the quality of the political debate on the PM Blog is sometimes worthy of wider note, methinks.
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Re: Cossackgirl
Poor Shaun, Having that huge photo stuck up there.
I think one of should try some airbrushing as he could do with a bit more of a tan and perhaps whiter eyes ;-)
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and cossack girl - here are another three links from the past :-)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/pm/2007/05/michael_palin_1.shtml
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/pm/2007/05/stand_by.shtml
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/pm/2007/05/ten_minutes_out.shtml
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/pm/2007/05/refreshment_arrives.shtml
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/pm/2007/05/hes_gone_back_to_the.shtml
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Jonnie (39)
See I told you I was ignorant of these things. Thanks for that. Incidentally as a footnote. I believe not only did I not get the speed and service I signed up for, its got significantly worse than the service I signed up to.
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The truth is, it's time for us all to rise up and reclaim our internet connection spee....oh I can't be faffed.
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Things could be worse Eddie.
YOU, could be related to Andrew Mackey, MP...
You're not.
ARE you..?
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44. Jonnie: many thanks for this treat; I also notice that this time two years ago you yourself, Big Sister and Nikki Noodle made up most of Eddie's audience on that blog - pioneering work, that, and now look at us!
Earlier in the day I have incorrectly answered the question in RL "Mother, do you want another G&T before lunch?" by saying, "Yes please, a double". Things became a bit of a blur after that and I notice that I have left comments above (31, 32), I hope they are correct...
As one on Eddie's comments on Jonnie's links says "gin out of shot", I shall quickly add a train story told on Radio 4 a while back by a distinguished journalist, who, in his salad days, was sent to meet the Royal Train bringing the Queen Mother to London from the coast. It was in the days when such events were reported in Court Circulars. Being a bright spark, this journo decided to find a human interest touch for his report, approached the steward of the coach the QM had travelled in, and asked, "Which brand of tea did you serve the QM?"
The man gave him a pointed look and said, "No fear. She had her two G&Ts as per usual."
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44. And, Jonnie, I am afraid I am still seeing mostly double. Where you said "another three links" I can see at least five... Oh, my head! ;o))
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Eddie (46)
You gauged my response to a tee. I really must do something abou....oh perhaps another time.
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Re mine at 48.
NOT 31, 32! 41, 42, not that it matters.
What matters is I am still seeing 5 links where Jonnie says he posted 3. This is getting chronic, I'll check again in the morning...
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Re: Cossackgirl.. Glad you have joined us in the 'birthing years' --
It'll all be a different story in 30 years time when Eddie will be presenting .. 'The Sky at Night' ;-)
However, he's a good lad, and if you need a favour once in a while, he normally comes up with the goods.
To me Eddie is the Phil Mitchell in Albert Sq - or perhaps Dot Branning -- ie: they will always see you are alright, but never mess with them, especially Dot - the non- smoking variety.
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So, iPM is moving back to early morning for ?eight weeks. No great loss there, then.
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Eddie, I think you need to lie down today and lower your stress levels. After all, this is Britain, and the British way is to complain but not to revolt.
We'll leave the revolting to the French.
;o)
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52. Jonnie: thanks for the tip. I have given up watching Eastenders a long time ago, I am afraid, but I can easily picture the type of characters you have described.
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Isn't it time we elected a new speaker?
http://moralorder.mediumisthemess.com/blog
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I'm a bit late with this, but PLEASE can we have Eddie as the regular Chair of Any/Q & Any/A? Jonathan D. gets so splutteringly agitated,stopping us hearing what the panellists have to say, interrupting the flow, (& then I turn off, can't bear it);
- & last week Eddie achieved the impossible with ANY/A, & made it fascinating! Really skillfully drawing people out, being really sensitive when required,generally treating callers as though they are interesting people with a story worth hearing. A treat!
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jonnie 2, Er, the BBC?
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fJd 11, Careful, I got a post deleted for saying something like that. A certain female complained. No proof of that, but...
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I didn't check, but who resurrected this thread? Ignore my 58 and 59. Ain't people got better things to do than troll through old threads?
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I failed to check too, David McNickle, so ain't we a pair!
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