jayfurr | BBC Belfast

It's been too long since I've done radio. I was interviewed by the BBC Five Live program at 6:50 PM EDT last night for about five minutes. I think I rambled too much and had to be cut off at a couple spots, but that happens when you've got X amount of time to spare and you're more interested (as a radio producer) in keeping it 'interesting' as opposed to 'correct, complete, and thorough'. I'd practiced beforehand, anticipating their questions, but I still felt sort of spun around when it was all over.

The producer, however, wrote back when I wrote her to ask how I'd done and said I'd done much better than a typical British person would have; wasn't stuffy and reserved and hesitant -- and those were her words. When she saw that I'd CC'd Carole on my 'so, how'd I do' email she added a postscript and said "Carole -- he was fab!"

Fab. I can die happy now. I'm "Fab".

Anyway, someone connected with BBC Belfast heard the programme, which was on just before midnight British Summer Time, and this morning called me to ask me to be on their drive-time show this afternoon (their time). It'll be about 1 pm EDT. Apparently they just loved me.

Huh. I guess I really don't know what plays well on radio.