Media & Politics – from “The Foreign Correspondent”, by A. Furst

Time to share a nice quote with you. I’m reading this book by Alan Furst titled “The Foreign Correspondent”.
It’s a very interesting book. Set around the years 1938-1939 follows the adventures and struggles of Mr Weisz, a journalist at Reuters, in Paris.
This is a brief extract from the book, a conversation between Mr Weisz and [...]

BBC: NewsHour and The World Today

Just a quick note.

I am really happy because the BBC WHYS team asked me to go back for an extra week… so you know I am back in London next week.. Hole!
I asked David to have a look to other programmes and I agreed to go on NewsHour on Tuesday for a late shift (11.30am – [...]

BBC WHYS: Day 12-13-14-15

 Mmm, how to start this?
SHAME ON ME!!!!
It’s been more than week since my last post.  My last week at BBC WHYS was slightly different because moost of the team was in America. Davis, Richard me and the ‘casuals’ (!!) were in the office trying to put together enough contributors, guests and callers as usual.
It was [...]

BBC WHYS: Day 11

DAY 11

BBC WHYS Today
I’m so happy today. Another nice day in London… after another scary weekend in Manor House… What a place! I hope I’ll never need to pass through it ever again!
I had such a good chat with Alex this afternoon, she’s such a super girl. I also find out we appreciate the same [...]

BBC WHYS: Day 10

DAY 10

BBC WHYS 16th March ’07
Different day today as I started earlier and I went off to a different place in order to work with Richard in White City… gosh it’s so posh! The hall and reception look like the one of a luxury hotel and the restaurant is amazing… anyway… I’m already waffling about [...]