I don’t have much sympathy for Carol Thatcher …Joanne Milroy writes….but ‘green rooms’ can be stressful places. Last Friday I found myself in one at Broadcasting House, munching Pret sandwiches and….worrying about my hair. I was with a client at a recording of the BBC’s The Bottom Line where one of the other guests was Toni Mascolo, the founder of the Toni and Guy hairdressing chain. It quickly became clear that my strategy for the morning should be to stand as far away as possible from his immaculately coiffered assistant.
The news from The Bottom Line is that it has become the BBC’s latest foray into multi-media programming. As well as the BBC Radio 4 version, it will now go out in three other formats – on radio, on the BBC World Service, and as a TV programme on BBC News and BBC World. The BBC reckon that the Saturday evening Radio 4 format has an average of 650,000 listeners, and the extensions into World Service radio and TV will make it a global programme. With the BBC’s current favourite son Evan Davis in the presenter chair, it seems destined for a higher profile. And my verdict on the green room – quite nice sandwiches, but the BBC tea is still terrible.
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