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Thursday Apr 23, 2009

At Least it is Sunny

Well at least it is sunny. I've had a good Easter, I don't know about you. Literally, I don't know how your Easter has been, so I hope it has been good.

Last week a co-volunteer on Sheffield live 93.2fm managed to get free tickets to see a night of stand up comedy through interviewing the comedians on his radio show. Arnold Brown did a set that was the best stand-up I have ever seen – I was crying with laughter - and we got in through the guest list, instead of paying the £16 ticket cost. My point? Well, I guess that if you give up time for free, sometimes you might get free things in return – which has to be good (the best things in life are free etc. etc.)

Next week Sheffield Live is hosting its first "Radiothon", essentially a week of fundraising appeals and events, and as a result the show that I am involved with will be going out live from Sheffield's winter gardens. We'll definitely get more publicity, but whether it will be of the kind that the station is after with me at the helm, remains to be seen. Anyway, to further the cause of the station we have decided to try and get a Sheffield based celebrity on the show for an interview. Michael Palin, Sean Bean, Noel Sharky, David Blunkett, Roots Manuva, Martin Simpson are all being tried, but if my recent, half-hearted, attempts to get Bob Dylan along (i.e. sending an email to bobdylan.com at 4am asking if he'd fancy it) are anything to go by then we might have to disappoint our starry eyes.

Not that it matters greatly. The best people I have met and interviewed for the radio show have been thoroughly un-famous. When we have interviewed a government minister (only the one, mind) or a trade union official, it has rarely resulted in anything other than a lacklustre conversation. Speak to the bloke down the road (he did actually work just down the road) who runs a free access space for the public to get creative with computers/technology, and the results have been far more involving, interesting and valuable.

What does this mean? No idea.

Volunteering is a good way to get freebies and meet interesting people (as long as they aren't trade union officials). I'm hardly unearthing the secret of youth there, but maybe that's what the ramble above means.

Posted by Harry ( 8:55 PM )
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