Radio 4 presenter's big mistake

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Radio 4 presenter has just accidentally called the culture minister Jeremy Hunt,Jeremy C... He then nearly chokes to death to cover his error. Nearly dropped my breakfast when I heard it.....poor man!

I like the psychologist who reckons that it is the PM's fault for making Jeremy Hunt the Culture minister, as it was asking for this mistake to be made!!

It's brightened up my monday morning no end!

It was Jim Naughtie that was guilty of the Colemanballs incident. Poor bloke. Incredibly straight down the line Radio 4 Today & Book Club presenter. He's so old-school BBC that he doesn't even use slang or colloquialisms. So how any regular listener could have been 'offended' by a slip is beyond me. Expect he'll have recurring nightmares about it for weeks....

That has made me howl. Great stuff. As for causing offence fgs????

It is quite amazing that Andrew Marr then made the same error later in the morning on Radio 4. I can't find that one on you tube though.

Nicky Campbell did it twice in the same interview recently when he was talking to a woman about a Hunt. She (the interviewee) said something like "whoops, unfortunate slip-up there Nicky" and he said "yes, I was trying to gloss over it actually" ... and then he went and said it AGAIN about a minute later. Hilarious.

The most distressing part about this for me is that I must have dozed through the actual incident. I heard the 'coughing fit' into the news, and the apology, but completely missed the actual thing.

I don't think the apology sounded very sincere. It is very odd. Isn't there some quote about once is something, twice is something else. Can't remember it the quote.

Here is the Andrew Marr clip

He doesn't even make an immediate apology, don't know if he did so later.

Marr even interrupts Aaronovitch, eager to get the name in.

"To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness."

Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest

excellent thanks Rustybear, that's the one

I love the coughing fit

I have a job where I talk almost all day. We all know in the office that slip ups do happen, and a lot of silent corpsing and face-pulling goes on behind the scenes

Did anyone else notice at the end of the YouTube link, they trailed the other programe as "Mart the Week with Andrew Starr"??

Listen to Naughtie again. Very emphatic pronounciation of the name. Then listen to his apology. Then listen to the email sent in by a psychologist.

Jeremy Hunt is Culture Secretary, which, I think, means that he is responsible for the BBC

I have been giggling all day about it. Really brightened my Monday!

Argh, I missed it. I was driving in thick fog this morning and, unusually, switched off the radio so I could concentrate on the driving.

@claig... if you're trying to say that a broadcaster as professional as Jim Naughtie deliberately messed up the name and was then insincere in saying sorry to make some political point then you're being ridiculous. He was clearly mortified when making his apology. And if he wants to make pro-BBC political points against the Culture Secretary he could grill him in an interview ad nauseam.

Chil1234, you're a Tory, you're not naive. Read Guido's blog, they're not all naive there either.

Aaronovitch said that it was a Freudian slip on the Marr show. A Freudian slip is a verbal mistake that is thought to reveal a repressed belief.

Naughtie's apology says something like some of you we know from emails found it funny, some we also know from emails were fairly offended on a Monday morning. First he says they found it funny, then he says some found it fairly offensive. He then apologises for those who thought that it wasn't what they wanted to hear over their breakfast.

Then they read out an email from a reader in psychology, who says that it is a well known error in psycholinguistic research and wasn't a Freudian slip, and Naughtie says I am most grateful for that. The email says something like it was more the Prime Minister's fault than Jim's ... making Jeremy Hunt the culture secretary was reckless in the extreme.

I don't understand, what was the mistake?

classic, SauvignonBlanche

He did a 'Spoonerism'... Instead of 'Jeremy Hunt the Culture Minister' it became 'Jeremy C**t'... Realised immediately, choked his way through the next bit of script and was very contrite about it later on. (Naughtie's understated style explains the term 'fairly offensive'... and presumably it was the minority view among listeners)

I should think, in live broadcasting, there are some tongue-twisters & phrases - like the infamous 'shattered scowers' - that presenters consciously try to get right. And this probably makes it more likely that slips happen.

Claig's just trying to create a conspiracy where none exists. Now that's naive.

Ok, we'll have to see if it happens again, twice on the same day

Nope, still don't get it.

If it's a spoonerism, we'll be hearing a lot more of it over the next five years

'Nope, still don't get it.'

maybe it's because you have an unrepressed belief