The problem with people like Ryes, they are 'broadcast opportunists'. Had he taken the trouble to think about the type of programme and demographic BBC Radio 4 is aimed at, he might have got more than three minutes airtime. The producers listening to his senseless gabbling and shameless self-promotion promptly pulled the mic away. He completely wasted it.
The problem with people like Ryes, they are 'broadcast opportunists'. Had he taken the trouble to think about the type of programme and demographic BBC Radio 4 is aimed at, he might have got more than three minutes airtime. The producers listening to his senseless gabbling and shameless self-promotion promptly pulled the mic away. He completely wasted it.
"We didn't know what was going on" ... says the man who was supposedly working for nothing since Xmas ! The whole subject was pretty glibly dealt with in less than 7 minutes, IMO.
And if he'd thought a bit more he'd have realised he was surely invited on just for the presenter and her audience to sneer at.
I can just hear Daphne in Esher telling her best friend Imogen 'there was a perfectly ghastly little creature on the wireless today who apparently used to work on something called a shopping channel' :mysmilie_59:
I assume you all listened from 17 mins when a shopping expert for The Telegraph was interviewed about the asa etc
The clips they played, which they got off Youtube BBC paying the rights then hahah, made it sound like the channel was called the vault and the presenters obviously thought they were called Shop At Bid for a long time.
He didn't take much cajoling!!!
I suspect Mr Tom you are Mark Ryes... you are defending him way to much not to be...
Just like his tone changes when he is being Mr Nice Guy on air and then Mr bitch queen on Twitter.
Well what was he supposed to say "um um um nah iv got nothing in the pipeline and i have no skills either"
Yet if he posted on here, the tone would soon change
I know what I am but not afraid to admit it lol.
A missed opportunity, in my opinion.
I feel the interests of the ex Sit-Uppers would have been better served with a more ebullient representative. I'm thinking Lisa Brash or Mike Mason.
Or of course Peter Simon.