4.6 • 3.5K Ratings
🗓️ 8 September 2017
⏱️ 26 minutes
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0:00.0 | This is the BBC. |
0:03.0 | No, on BBC Radio 4, it's time for more or less. |
0:07.0 | Or one moment, I do beg your pardon, that doesn't look like Tim Harford. |
0:12.0 | Hello, I'm Roger Bolton, and in feedback this week, |
0:15.0 | we'll be trying to get to the bottom of a water temperature problem on more or less, |
0:19.0 | which is turning loyal listeners against the programme and each other. |
0:23.0 | It's a bit embarrassing for a programme about numbers to make an elementary mistake |
0:27.0 | about the temperature scale. |
0:29.0 | I was on the verge of throwing something at the radio over the patterns who were, |
0:33.0 | pointlessly, noting that 30 degrees is not twice as hot as 15 degrees. |
0:37.0 | Also this week, the use of music on Radio 4 has long been an irritating issue with many listeners. |
0:43.0 | We ask the producers of more or less to justify their use of it. |
0:48.0 | Thank you for playing sad music underneath the Grenfell Tower Fire item. |
0:53.0 | Without it, I may not have understood just how sad a story it was, |
0:57.0 | and that I should feel sad. |
1:00.0 | And finally, has Radio 4's Mr Ruud? |
1:03.0 | No, not John Humphreys, his successor, Tim Harford, gone too far this time. |
1:07.0 | We have a cascade of complaints about, more or less. |
1:10.0 | Hey, hey, Roger, you're in my seat, and you're in my slot. |
1:15.0 | This is more or less feedback, not on air to October. What are you doing here? |
1:18.0 | Well, it is our time slot, and I'm in the building, and I'm bored at home. |
1:22.0 | I want to do some work, and there's plenty to do. |
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