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Jim Naughtie's slip
Dec 6th, 2010, 1:43pm  
You can hear his unfortunate Spoonerism, just before 8 this morning on the Today show, his subsequent corpsing and his apology/explanation later, by clicking here.
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Reply #1 - Dec 6th, 2010, 3:48pm  
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!
It's been edited out of the iPlayer media, leaving just Jim's "coughing" fit.
But did you catch Evan's deliberate spoonerism at the end of the programme "Mart the week with Andrew Starr"?
It's just too funny, and on a par with the many other clips from Today, including Charlotte's various corpses. Wink
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Reply #2 - Dec 6th, 2010, 8:52pm  
What a very silly exercise. Sad people with nothing better to do than give excessive publicity to a slight slip and an over zealous apology just to make it worse.............and send even more sad people reaching for the iplayer button. What is the BBC coming to.
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Reply #3 - Dec 10th, 2010, 12:07pm  
Seeing Jim in difficulty through the glass as the pips were sounding, why didn't the producer/editor get his co-presenter to read the heasdlines or if he was absent from the studio, the newsreader? Jim would then have had 10 minutes to recover.
I think I can safely say it wouldn't have been quite so embarrassing in my day......
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Reply #4 - Dec 11th, 2010, 12:38pm  
Alan, I guess the Producer was him/herself in stitches - and quite unable to operate the talkback key!! Evan sounded as though he was in a bad way too. And then of course Andrew Starr went and repeated the name in his program.

And "in your day", didn't we have such gems as "the Lesbianese Army", etc.?
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Reply #5 - Dec 20th, 2010, 10:40am  
Ho ho - I shouldn't have mentioned "my day" should I?
Someone might remember when, during a strike,  I had to write and read Newsbeat and  the hourly  news on Radio1 and failed miserably to pronounce - Bananarama, a one-time pop group.
I'm sorry to say it wasn't my only gaffe..............
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