Andrew Marr

[expoultryboy]

Missing him on Sunday morning , Sophie Raworth is so so weak . Rishi is having such an easy time today.

[IanMcL]

Marr interruptus

He asked a question and interupted the answer about 4 words in.

[Goddy]

Agreed about Sophie Raworth

The first 4 questions were 'would you have said what Boris said about Ukraine being like Brexit'.

However insensitive, obnoxious and moronic Johnson might be, what a waste of time pressing Rishi Sunak on that......

[Jimmymaccer]

Think yerself lucky, it’s not Charlie and Naga………………those two spoil what’s otherwise a nice Thursday Friday morning get ready for the weekend feeling.

[Jamesy]

Think yerself lucky, it’s not Charlie and Naga………………those two spoil what’s otherwise a nice Thursday Friday morning get ready for the weekend feeling.

That Naga has a voice that seriously grates …….

[evensteadiereddie]

Who cares about her voice....

[TheFamilyCat]

Think yerself lucky, it’s not Charlie and Naga………………those two spoil what’s otherwise a nice Thursday Friday morning get ready for the weekend feeling.

Turn it off/over.

[Foreverly Claret]

Don't know why they chose her when some of the Newsnight crew would have been much more incisive .Marr was a hard act to follow but somebody like Kirsty Wark or Emily Maitliss would have been much better suited for the job .My own choice would have been Nick Robinson .

[Billy Balfour]

I hope Sophy Ridge becomes the BBC's next political editor, and does the Sunday Morning programme.

[RingoMcCartney]

The BBC !?

[claretandy]

Agreed about Sophie Raworth

The first 4 questions were 'would you have said what Boris said about Ukraine being like Brexit'.

However insensitive, obnoxious and moronic Johnson might be, what a waste of time pressing Rishi Sunak on that......

Political interviews are terrible now, it's all gotcha questions for viral clips.

[fatboy47]

Agreed about Sophie Raworth

The first 4 questions were 'would you have said what Boris said about Ukraine being like Brexit'.

However insensitive, obnoxious and moronic Johnson might be, what a waste of time pressing Rishi Sunak on that......

There's a need for interviewers to be as obnoxious and insensitive as the interviewees. Pity Paxmans no longer arsed about doing it.

[Steve1956]

That Naga has a voice that seriously grates …….

And a personality to match...obnoxious woman.

[bfcjg]

To many political journalists etc are trying to make it about themselves now, to aggressive, interrupting all the time, or pointless questions getting vacuous answers to keep in with the party of choice. It should just be here is the question just give an honest answer please after you've had a bit of time to think, have facts at hand to challenge after the answer not halfway through.
There was one journalist can't remember which one banging on to the defence minister asking to know how we are getting weapons to the Ukraine army, like he was going to tell him and the tone was oh you don't know do you not. It was a stupid brain dead question in the first place no doubt posed by a bright young thing with a degree in media studies but nothing else.

[yTib]

marr is crap. so is raworth.

kirsty wark is the best political mind at the beeb right now.

[Wokingclaret]

Raworth is only temporary, awaiting the new head of BBC news to start

[Im_not_Robbie_Blake]

,,,and that there Ann Robinson on Countdown.... oh heck!

[claretandbluesky]

Emma Barnett now the only abrasive no nonsense interviewer.

[Boss Hogg]

Heard him talk live and whilst I admire him getting over the stroke he’s dull as dishwater to listen to.

[yTib]

Emma Barnett now the only abrasive no nonsense interviewer.

she's an intellectual lightweight.

[Firthy]

Think yerself lucky, it’s not Charlie and Naga………………those two spoil what’s otherwise a nice Thursday Friday morning get ready for the weekend feeling.

Can't watch those two, they are so aggressive and condescending. Have to switch it off, Dan Walker and Sally Nugent are so much better, a joy to watch and Sally is much hotter as well.

[elwaclaret]

Great political commentator/interviewer. A nightmare when he does his ‘histories’ - you risk being ritually (verbally) battered if you quote him as a historical source in academic circles.

[claretandbluesky]

If she’s an intellectual light weight the rest are dross.
Since Andrew Neil went there really are no skilled operators. It’s just pure entertainment. Give us the half hour grilling of a minister or MP that soon sorted out the wheat from the chaff, but this generation haven’t got the attention span to cope with that. Little wonder problem solving has become so hard when all they are capable of is chanting irrelevant rhetoric.

[evensteadiereddie]

The funny thing is that if the interviewers at the BBC - or elsewhere for that matter - gave our useless leaders even half the **** they deserve, half the posters on here would soon be squealing about bias and unfairness......................

[RingoMcCartney]

The funny thing is that if the interviewers at the BBC - or elsewhere for that matter - gave our useless leaders even half the **** they deserve, half the posters on here would soon be squealing about bias and unfairness......................

Yeah, while at the same time, the other half would be denying reality !

[Spiral]

Aye, "educated" folk, wi' thur books and thur words an' whatnot. Fath'r sed gran'fath'r worked down't gravy mine when he weren't bouncin' him or his mum off tut' walls and fath'r sed he was t't cleverest bloke fath'r even knewd so 'e sed. And fath'r used t'work down't gravy mine, too. He was t't cleverest bloke I'd even knewn so he was (til his heart popped at 43). Bloody readers. Yoonyversity of life is what y'need. Don't be needin' t'be doing wi'none o' you readers and yer "politically correct opinions" an' yer "grades" and finkin' yer better than me coz yer not racist!

[Damo]

Aye, "educated" folk, wi' thur books and thur words an' whatnot. Fath'r sed gran'fath'r worked down't gravy mine when he weren't bouncin' him or his mum off tut' walls and fath'r sed he was t't cleverest bloke fath'r even knewd so 'e sed. And fath'r used t'work down't gravy mine, too. He was t't cleverest bloke I'd even knewn so he was (til his heart popped at 43). Bloody readers. Yoonyversity of life is what y'need. Don't be needin' t'be doing wi'none o' you readers and yer "politically correct opinions" an' yer "grades" and finkin' yer better than me coz yer not racist!

Try and drink 2 glasses of water before you retire for the evening

[Damo]

Agreed about Sophie Raworth

The first 4 questions were 'would you have said what Boris said about Ukraine being like Brexit'.

However insensitive, obnoxious and moronic Johnson might be, what a waste of time pressing Rishi Sunak on that......

To be fair, her target audience is thicker than a dockers butty, and that is what they have been getting irate on twitter about today

[bfcjg]

Andrew Neil tends to get to the point,he doesn't take prisoners but allows them to speak. I suppose the saying give them enough rope and they'll hang themselves springs to mind.

[MT03ALG]

Radio 4 Today Programme with the Interrupters Mishai Husain and Martha Kearney !!
Ask a question, ignore the answer, interrupt the answer, ask the next question Ad Infinitum !!

[aggi]

... It should just be here is the question just give an honest answer please after you've had a bit of time to think,
...

There is the issue though. If you're interviewing people who have a tenuous, at best, relationship with truth and honesty then it is difficult to carry out an interview in good faith.

[evensteadiereddie]

Yeah, while at the same time, the other half would be denying reality !

No, they'd be quite happy to see our so=called leaders called to account and not protected from difficult questions.

[RingoMcCartney]

Aye, "educated" folk, wi' thur books and thur words an' whatnot. Fath'r sed gran'fath'r worked down't gravy mine when he weren't bouncin' him or his mum off tut' walls and fath'r sed he was t't cleverest bloke fath'r even knewd so 'e sed. And fath'r used t'work down't gravy mine, too. He was t't cleverest bloke I'd even knewn so he was (til his heart popped at 43). Bloody readers. Yoonyversity of life is what y'need. Don't be needin' t'be doing wi'none o' you readers and yer "politically correct opinions" an' yer "grades" and finkin' yer better than me coz yer not racist!

The above post shows that education and intelligence are two entirely different things.

No matter how much of the former someone receives, it does not necessarily improve the latter.....

[evensteadiereddie]

There is the issue though. If you're interviewing people who have a tenuous, at best, relationship with truth and honesty then it is difficult to carry out an interview in good faith.

Exactly. You know, for instance, when a minister opens with "Well, of course, it's only right and proper that...." a torrent of carefully scripted and rehearsed bullcrap is on its way.

Fair play to any interviewer who sees through that and then persists in getting any kind of meaningful answer to their question.

[RingoMcCartney]

No, they'd be quite happy to see our so=called leaders called to account and not protected from difficult questions.

Not playing today Edward I'm a busy man, but the BBC!? You're havin' a laugh

[evensteadiereddie]

Edward ?

That's fine, Ringsting, you continue to enjoy your minority news/talk shows.

Luckily, as audience figures suggest, there are millions of people bright enough to use the BBC as the go-to station for information.

[evensteadiereddie]

Edward ?

That's fine, Ringsting, you continue to enjoy your minority news/talk shows.

Luckily, as audience figures suggest, there are millions of people bright enough to use the BBC as the go-to station for information.

[IanMcL]

I used to like Walden, years ago.

He would ask a question, get a full answer, dig deeper and so on.

At the end, he would summarise and everything the interviewee thought they had got awawith, was exposed in brutal black and white, for clarity!