Tom Hark Preston Park
Will Post For Cash
- Jul 6, 2003
- 74,100
Harty - the phone-in could be excellent, and sometimes is, but you really do have a problem with getting time-wasters off the line. And that's down to YOU. It's not a case of somebody else having a go if they can do better, you do pretty good, it's just you're missing a bog-standard interviewing technique - getting muppets off the line in order to stop the majority of your listeners switching off. There's probably a half-day course the Beeb do on it or something. That bloke banging on about the stitching of his daughter's shorts is a case in point. Leaving aside the obvious question of why he didn't demand a refund or replacement pair from the shop, you did everything right by the guy. Told him who to contact, where and when, and the poor sap wasn't even listening to your answers. At that point a polite 'f*** You, Loser, If You Wont Listen When Im Trying To Help You' would have sufficed. Then we could have got back to talking about the football.