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BBC Radio Wiltshire today
« on: November 09, 2006, 02:31:46 PM »

Caught the tail end of an interview with Graham on the breakfast show about Westbury to Swindon service cuts. (Graham apologies if I've stolen your thunder by posting first  Smiley) Thought the presenter Mark seemed more sympathtic to FGW rather than the folk of Western Wiltshire.  I cant comment too much as I didnt hear all of it, there doesnt appear to be any online links at the moment either.
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Re: BBC Radio Wiltshire today
« Reply #1 on: November 09, 2006, 05:25:34 PM »

Yes, I didn't feel I did particularly well on this interview.  In hindsight, the fact that they had a potted interview with Andrew Griffiths making his point left me having to follow on and be a bit of a "yes, but" aplologist - strategically bad position to be in.    And hard to react in a couple of minutes and get across that:

a) Andrews figures were old.

b) Andrew's figures were ONLY for Melksham and he was ignoring other users of the service - rather he was treating the service as if it was a private branch to Melksham only.

c) First are NOT providing a peak hour service from 10th December even if they say they are. That's DfT'd definition of peak rather than mine.

Perhaps just "sour grapes" ... I did a poor interview.   Ah well - still helped raise the case / situation.
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