Michael Buerk Andrew Doyle Nesrine Malik Mona Siddiqui & Tim Stanley didn't know I was still on the call after we recorded #MoralMaze @BBCRadio4 Here are quotes & approximations of what they said about me. We know how they speak about us but it's another thing to hear them do it
Michael Buerk: That was good wasn't it. That first speaker, she really got the Maxim guns out didn't she?
Nesrine Malik: Yeah, she was great. It's good to have someone like that on.
Nesrine Malik: Yeah, she was great. It's good to have someone like that on.
NB. The Maxim gun was invented by Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim in 1884. It was the first recoil-operated machine gun. It has been called "the weapon most associated with the British imperial conquest", and was used in colonial wars by other countries between 1886 and 1914 (wikipedia).
Andrew Doyle/Tim Stanley: The thing about people like that is that they think it's going to be the only time they're ever going to be on the radio. They have to get everything out. Come across as desperate.
N.B. Can't tell their voices apart.
N.B. Can't tell their voices apart.
Andrew Doyle/Tim Stanley: The thing is she will have lost the listeners after the first couple of minutes.
Michael Buerk: She really went for it. Wish she was on my side!
[They laugh]
Michael Buerk: She really went for it. Wish she was on my side!
[They laugh]
Mona Siddiqui: I'd had enough of the first speaker.
N.B: I was the first speaker.
N.B: I was the first speaker.
