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!

Brilliant that it was Jim Naughtie.

I love love maverick Humphrys, but Jim always seems such a goody two shoes. He has shot up 1000% now for me

Thank goodness he coughed rather than 'corpsing' - remember when that R4 lady with the impeccable voice (can't remember her name now) corpsed during some sort of obit? If Naughtie had had the giggles while talking about the shark attack it would have been awful.
As it is

On the lunchtime news today, the presenter came out with 'breast of bitish' and grimaced!! They must all be very sensitive about their pronunciation at the moment .

He's a Tory. Enough said.

I can't imagine why anyone would ring up to complain Have such people no sense of humour?

I can forgive R4 anything at all. It's the only thing that kept me sane and occasionally laughing for 5 years with 3 dc under 3yrs. That and alcohol

I was stunned for about a second when it happened, and then laughed my way thro the coughing fit. Sooooo funny I made dh shut up and listen!

Here's one for the Tories. It was posted on Guido's blog. It is Robin Day with Dennis Skinner

www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Ec81vte1rL8

I can't believe I missed it! Just as well really, I'm usually driving when I'm listening to Today and may well have crashed through having hysterics.

The 'coughing fit' was the bit that made me cringe and die for him. Occasionally newsreaders have a coughing fit and are trying to hard to repress it. Splutter, splutter. Poor James N's sounded as if he was trying to do a stage cuoghing fit in first year of drama school...... Where's a good frog in the throat when you need it?

The apology was convincing. He sounded bemused and resigned - as you would after an long bout of hysterics. (Was Evan chuckling all the while??)

Robin Day and Dennis Skinner is like a classic Monty Python sketch. No long bouts of hysterics, coughing and giggling, just consummate professionalism as they move on as if nothing had happened.

Skinner doesn't bat an eyelid, it's as if he is used to being addressed in such a manner.

I've just listened to this. It's fabulously funny, but even funnier is James Naughtie trying so hard not to completely crack up afterwards!

Oh Lord, I can't believe I missed this! I heard the bloody interview about broadband that followed it. .

This is the bloke who went to the British Museum to announce major arts cuts, and then just picked up and tried on a bronze age bracelet while not wearing gloves wasn't it?!?

Just enjoyed the error, but then went back to iPlayer and they have snipped it out!

I had given up listening to 'Today' some time ago because of the interview 'technique', the routine 'we have run out of time' endings to interesting interviews (only to be followed by those damnable trailer, considered more important by the BBC staff/editors) and what I call "stopwatch radio" where they cram too many things into too short a time (by truncating the interviews, giving few items any depth so they can skip to sport, skip to a trail, skip to a different [uninteresting] item, fit in some 'live' interview to do with the arts [99% of the time London based], and so forth).

I wonder whether James' position is under review ? Just that when Peter Jefferson (YouTube clip) it seems his contract was not renewed. You still hear him (in 'The News Quiz', for example, and filling in with the news or continuity now and then) but not on a regular shift, it seems. I guess the difference was that one was an overheard curse made about his own error and the other can be 'explained away' as a slip of the tongue...

I usually have R4 recorded 24x7 (using some PC software taking audio from DAB radio) but on Sunday I switched to Radio 2 at 02:00 else I would have had the original audio to compare with the iPlayer copy...

it's on youtube, the links are on this thread

brilliant

Thankyou so much for sharing this.

I agree it was a spoonerism, very easy to do, and so what if he doesn't like the feller in any case - I have no idea whather Mr CHunt is a good bloke or not - it was a genuine error.

James Naughtie is far too professional to even think of deliberately doing something like that...if anyo of you think he would, I suggest you've been listening to far too much Radio 1!

Yes, claig, and have listened, hence would not have known iPlayer had been 'doctored' to remove it if I had not heard the YouTube clip.

I don't think such material is restricted to Radio 1 - Mock the Week is the type of show which might include something almost as bad (saw some other thread mentions Frankie Boyle, though have not read it yet).