Notes from The Now Show: Keeping it Topical
Here's Producer Julia McKenzie with this week's notes from the Now Show ideas meeting.
After the FIFA results coming through not long before we printed our scripts last Thursday, this week our topical challenge is that the results of the tuition fee vote won't come through until 6.30pm Thursday evening when we'll be in our technical run-through on stage prior to the recording.
When the show goes out on the Friday and Saturday however, the implications of the vote will have been fairly well digested by the public so we're figuring out how we might try to lead on story that isn't fully known yet.
John Finnemore is one of our guests this week and he has gone for the very rich territory of the alleged Russian spy who was working with the Lib Dem MP who took a great interest in asking sensitive defence questions in parliament.
German stand-up Henning Wehn is also a guest and so he'll bring us the German view on the FIFA fall-out amongst other things. Not sure what Mitch Benn has planned for his songs at the moment - as long as he doesn't turn out 4 mins 33 seconds of silence like the proposed charity single we should be fine. Ah. And as I finish typing this, Wiki Leaks front man Julian Assange has just been arrested...
The Now Show continues on Fridays at 6.30pm on ±«Óãtv Radio 4.
Comment number 1.
At 7th Dec 2010, Mavarine Du-Marie wrote:Keeping it topical, expect no less, that it will be at its best; jest with fervour plus sonorous along with guests – portend.
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At 8th Dec 2010, ±«ÓãtvLegend wrote:Well, it would be no fun if it was too easy now would it?
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