RADIO REVIEW: NEIL MITCHELL TALK SHOW

Sitting down to listen to Neil Mitchells show alone today, I realised, that from experience, I was going to get bored… quickly.

The show opens with Neil raising the issue of legalising drugs and the affect it will have on the community, a guest on the phone whose name I failed to catch delves into the issue and picks it apart from many different angles including the view from the public eye and from the eyes of people involved with the government and the reaction that could follow.

Sadly the next few issues and topics raised also failed to grab me and bring me into the conversation to a point where I can stay focused. While relatively trying to keep up with Neil, I tried my hardest not to draw moustaches on people in the herald sun in front of me.

Neil goes on to raise many more issues including a Goat in Dandenong who is being evicted, to dogs and actors being classed in the same boat. By that he means if you teach a dog to sit, it will sit, if you teach an actor to act. They will act. I found this a very insulting and a poor comparison. Being an actor myself, as small and unimportant as I am, I found it extremely insulting that he would say it because acting looks easy but it is fairly challenging. Being compared to a dog did not help me relate to the show or make me want to keep listening.

The show was very boring for me and I was not engaged with the 2 hour show at all except for my anger towards his statements on acting. There is no chance I will be listening in again.

Keep the good times coming,
Tim Bolch.

RADIO REVIEW: THE HAMISH AND ANDY SHOW 30/3

Being a frequent and avid listen of the Hamish and Andy show, I couldn’t have thought of any other show to listen to and review for my radio assignment.

Since the show bounce from 5 days a week to just once a week every Friday, Hamish and Andy have a lot of spare time during the week to prepare for their show.

 Funnily enough the show began with the two funny men talking about how lucky they are to work only once a week for two hours. They go into a method they call “social eject buttons” which basically is if you’re out late at night and want to leave, but you really don’t want to be stuck there for long, you spring a social eject button for work for an excuse to leave. The get listeners to call in and tell them perfect examples of perfect social eject buttons, people calling in giving them answers of being a hair dresser, fishermen and a paramedic.

The two both have such a great knowledge of each other and their humour that they bounce of each other so well and combine amazingly to create very entertaining segments.

The boys have many reoccurring guests on the show, one being Andy’s roommate, Horgs the inventor, who calls in once a week and gives the boys thoughts of inventions that he believes would be great. This week Horgs idea of a “move/icebreaker” called the “mid-speecher” is basically having a conversation with a female for about thirty minutes, then somewhere during the conversation, you just lean in and kiss the girl as a surprise. With horgs giving them a 100% successful strike rate. Hamish and Andy find it very humorous and really give Horgs a bit of a ribbing.

The guys end the show with the all famous “jazz chat” which is the two just catching up and having a chat, to the lovely beat of jazz music. Today’s show includes such great lines as “would you be sad if I cloned myself, and the clone died?” which Andy replied with “no” and “lord Hamish, you and I are going on a gap year to Europe, I was thinking of buying a castle, would you like to audition to be the jester?”

The show is a humorous take on the weeks news and is a great way to spend your Friday afternoon. I would recommend it to anyone who enjoys being happy and STILL I will be listening and following the boys every week.

Keep the good times coming,
Tim Bolch.

RADIO REVIEW: THE BOTTOM LINE WITH EVAN DAVIS ON BBC 23/3

Sitting down to listen to this show on my iphone I was immediately thrown into confusion with the amount of safistication and business chat that was being brought up. Obviously things I lack as a person.

 The show is introduced with the main topic of the day which was “being ruthless in business” and the main question being raised, when is it right to be tough at the top? With Evan and quests Jasmine Montgomery, Michelle Giddens and Dido Harding discussing the pros and cons of being ruthless in business.

Customer service is brought up as one the very big problems with the fact that it is so slow and why do the people have to go through such a large ordeal for something as simple as customer service. Harding states that more jobs are being created to improve customer service with 24 stations across England to be created to aid the problem.

 Giddens brings up that ruthlessness is a weapon of last resort and she would only use it if there was no other option and if the competition uses dirty tactics to try and get the edge in their field of work.

Montgomery and Harding get into the degree that to be ruthless you cannot show pity towards your opponent to get the upper edge but they both agree that there is no place for ruthlessness in business but it can be easily confused with decisiveness.

As I tried to pay full attention to the dull and simple program, I noticed that the show was horrible. In my opinion, because for me, I am one hundred per cent not interested in business and ruthlessness in business, and I find the show to be a complete twenty-seven minute waste of my time. But I bet there are grown up, mature people who heavily disagree with me.

The only positive I found form the show was that Evan Davis was actually a good presenter and I didn’t mind the sound of his voice. He raised the right questions and kept many angles open for conversation. But be that as it may, I will not be queuing up to buy the audiobook for the bottom line.

Keep the good times coming,
Tim Bolch.