A Few Crumbs From The Radio Festival
A career-endangering start for me at the Radio Festival, mainly because I decided to sit right in the front row for last night's opening debate at the City Halls. Sally Magnusson was in the chair and the motion was "This House likes it local".
First to speak was one of my ultimate bosses, Pat Loughrey, the Director of Nations and Regions. But sitting next to me was my colleague Tony Currie who, for reasons that remain mysterious, used the question and answer session to launch into a heated (and incoherent) argument with Pat about the quality of local radio and the absence of Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú Local Radio in places like Edinburgh and Glasgow.
All very well, but then Tony draped his arm around me and implicated me as a supporter of his tirade. This is what you call guilt by association.
"I'm not really with him!" I managed to mumble into the microphone in Tony's hand.
A better set of sessions this morning with my personal highlight being a outsiders view of radio presented by the Guardian's Emily Bell. I'm a huge fan of her writing and podcasting and so, after break for tea and chocolate-chip cookies, I hung around in the foyer to say hello.
She was completely self-effacing and charming and it was only later I realised I had melted chocolate chips staining the front of my shirt.
So, I might be looking for a new job before this festival is over, but I don't think the Guardian is going to be an option.
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