"Success always occurs in private, and failure in full view" - and this is never felt more acutely than during those embarassing moments in broadcasting when everything just goes horribly wrong. Here is a selection of some classic radio moments...

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• Getting Started
  William Hardcastle - The World At One
  In which William has difficulties introducing himself to an American contributor
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• A Brief Question...
  In which our interviewer stuggles to ask a brief question. Our interviewee does rather better to answer it.
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• If You Don’t Want To Know The Score...
  In which tenses are confused and the confused get tense
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• Thorough Research?
  Malcolm Allison
  In which our interviewee Professor Crick, is a bit narked off.
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