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I1: Mark Pragnal is Managing Director of the Centre for Economic and
Business Research. Uh, Mark, are you there? We’ve lost you.
N: And there’ll be live coverage on the BBC of the Democratic convention
in New York in just in … under ten minutes, that’s in about, ah, ten
minutes.
R: And that is all the business news for the moment. Riz.
Ri: Thank you very much, Rob. I’m back with a look at the, ah,
headweather … with the headlines after a look at the weather with Rob
McElweather, McElwee.
V: News. Everybody’s got an opinion about it: there’s too much of it; it’s
on at the wrong time; it’s too serious; it’s too fluffy; it’s too short; it’s too
tall. And most of all, it’s live.
NO: So if it starts going wrong, you’re going to see it, and probably enjoy it
at the same time.
LEP: And finally, my thanks to Hugh Smith of Holt and Kay Coulson of
Fordham Heath, Colchester, for sending me these little and large
bottles with, ah, impossible nails and screws through pieces of wood to
further tantalise my brain on how they did it … oh … ah!
FB: The thing about rolling news is that you have to fill an awful lot of time,
and things are changing around you and you won’t necessarily be that
clear about, you know, you know you’ve got to interview about three or
four guests, the order of them might change – you’re not quite sure
who it’s gonna be …
V: And twenty-four-hour rolling news has created a new category. The
right interview with the wrong guest.