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At a meeting in Glasgow this afternoon our guest speaker was Andy Parfitt, the Controller of Radio 1 and 1 Xtra and the man in charge of the Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú's popular music strategy. I'm not sure who is running our unpopular music strategy but there's bound to be someone.
Andy gave us an eloquent and compelling account of the Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú's plans and described how the various radio networks were making links with Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú television channels to cover big events like The Proms and T in the Park.
But at one point he tried to tell us how he had been repeating himself at meetings in London.
"I sound like a broken record, " he said, before pausing and wondering aloud if that expression would make sense to anyone born in the post-vynl era.
"Perhaps it should be 'I sound like a skipping CD,' " he mused, before rejecting that and finally landing on the perfect expression for this age of digital downloads and internet radio
"I sound like a buffering stream," he concluded.
If William Wordsworth was alive today he'd be using lines like that in his rap-poems.
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