Commonwealth Games (finally) kicks off
Given the amount of news coverage there’s been from Delhi in the past couple of weeks about the preparations – or lack of them – for the , it’s easy to forget they don’t actually start until this weekend.
There will be live commentary on the opening ceremony in Sportsworld on Sunday, and the main commentators – Russell Fuller and Mukesh Sharma, sports editor of – both make an appearance on Over To You this week.
Mukesh tells Rajan about a new twitter service that he’ll be providing for the Â鶹Éç Sport website – the quickest way, he believes, of getting the headline developments out to as wide an audience as possible.Ìý He has some interesting thoughts on the importance of twitter, rather than more conventional forms of news broadcasting, as you can hear on this week’s programme.Ìý
And Russell Fuller tells Rajan some of the secrets of being a sports commentator – what he does when things go wrong, for example, or when a match or tournament just goes on and on and he needs to liven up the dull bits.
Korea comparison
And we also hear from the Â鶹Éç’s China Editor, Shirong Chen, about how the recent party conference in North Korea has been reported in that country – a place where the media is more restricted than almost anywhere else in the world. He makes an interesting comparison between North Korea in 2010 and China in the 1970s, as you can hear in this week’s Over To You.
We also hear from a listener in Barbados, Julius Gittens, who got in touch after hearing about some of the cuts to the World Service that were announced last week.Ìý
If you haven’t heard all the details you can find out more on Over To You this week... and do let us know what you think about what’s already been announced – and about what else should or shouldn’t be cut.
Cathy Packe is the Producer, Over To You
Over To You is your chance to have your say about the Â鶹Éç World Service and its programmes. It airs at 00:40, 03:40 and 12:40 every Sunday (GMT).
Comment number 1.
At 9th Oct 2010, AngryScot wrote:Why are you devoting so much airtime on the Â鶹Éç World Service to the Commonwealth Games?
Even the people in India aren't interested judging by the lack of attendance. Sport is a very visual activity not suited to radio coverage and would be better covered by the Television arm of the Â鶹Éç.
If you are a sports enthusiast, The Commonwealth Games are very bush league and are deserving of coverage to the same extent as you would devote to the Special Olympics.
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