What Am I Like?
Imagine you invited a friend to tell you about your strengths and weaknesses as a chum. Or what if you asked your son or daughter to give it to you straight as regards your parenting skills? And just suppose you asked a colleague to tell you if you were any good at your job.
Do you think they would be honest? Would they sugar-coat the truth? Maybe.
But reading between the lines, you might also learn something about yourself too. Could you handle that?
Well that's the premise of a new conversation format we're devloping with the production team in Inverness. It has the working title 'What Am I Like?" but so far there's no confirmed line-up of guests. Feel free to make some suggestions.
The idea was inspired by part of Tom Morton's new series Drinking for Scotland. In the first programme, in which Tom embarks on 30 days of abstinence from booze, he interviews his own wife about his drinking habits. Susan is a practising G.P. in Lerwick, so her opinions have that added element of medical know-how.
If you heard the programme (which is still available on the Â鶹Éç iPlayer) then you'll know that Susan was very careful with her answers. Sometimes, she says, Tom does drink too much...but not as much as some other people she knows. She believes Tom is interested in alcohol for reasons well beyond its power to intoxicate and that's why he writes books about whisky. She also mentions one particular incident when he drank so much at the Gaelic MOD that he was still incoherent when he returned home.
All this on national radio of course. He's a brave man.
So have a think about this idea. If you had to interview three people about yourself - knowing it was for broadcast - who would you choose?
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