Whilst working back from grabbing some sarnies with some collegues this
lunchtime we were discussing politicans being interviewed on Radio 4 and
how evasive and downright dodgy some of them (most of them? :-) ) sound.
One of my chums then hit on a cunning wheeze for providing feedback to
radio listeners that are using DAB radios or the web which we all rather
liked.
The basic idea was to take short messages from listeners (SMS, tweets,
button clicks on the web, etc) when they thought that someone on air was
spouting nonsense/evading the question/answering questions he'd rather
he'd been asked/etc (we used a more bovine effluent related term during
our discussion but I doubt that would be acceptable on the BBC! ;-) ).
These could then be turned into a real time indication of listener
dissatisfaction with the answers being given, and maybe displayed on the
displays of the DAB radios, as well as on the Radio 4 website. Indeed the
web site could have graphs of "bovine effulent" levels during the day,
week, month, year, etc so that you could spot when there'd been a
particularly heavy burst of nonsense being spouted by someone on the
wireless, possibly with hyperlinks to iplayer programmes so that you could
nip back in time and hear what caused the listeners to cry foul.
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