What was going on with Eddie Mair and Robert Pestonon PM?

[Bumperrlicious]

Just caught Eddie Mair saying he was having a feud with him but couldn't tell if it was a joke or not.

It's been going on for a couple of weeks. I forget what started it. I think that there was some breaking news that RP pointed out that he had put in his blog the previous week. So it wasn't breaking news, it was RP's scoop that EM had overlooked. EM then pretended that RP had taken the huff and that they we now in a bitter feud of Oxbridge-academic-viciousness proportions.
RP won't play (spoilsport!) but EM keeps goading him.

R4, I fear for you.
You always know too much.
One day you will be silenced.
It will be like that scene in Goodfellas when Joe Pesci thinks he's going tobe a 'made man'.
YOu know the one.

Sorry, don't know 'that scene in Goodfellas'.

Now if Goodfellas had been a Radio4 prog, I would might have understood the allusion ...

Ahh, so mostly jokey then? The guy they had on after peston was pretty scathing of him. I must admit he sounded like he was falling asleep or playing on his iPhone when doing his slot!

Peston sais "you know" about 94 times in that segment. Not very Radio 4.

totally jokey

peston does sound very odd ATM

"... peston does sound very odd ATM"

At the moment? Peston has always sounded odd imo. And I blame him for the fall of NR.

Correction: peston does sound even more odd than usual ATM.

LOL - loved the correction.