[Albion] Monday Night Club Radio Five Live

[Machiavelli]

Essential listening for me.

Perfect way to ease into the week - and a very natural chemistry between Mark Chapman, Chris 'You're Better Than That' Sutton, Micah Richards and Rory Smith. Always great radio.

Beyond the football, I rarely listen to R5 -- R4, TMS and R6 are welcome additions. Chappers is just the consummate presenter, Zippy is an astute analyst disguised as a wind-up merchant (and his double-act with Bruce has us guffawing away at home), and Rory Smith is always on point. A top show.

 

[Bry Nylon]

Are you able to watch this show live over the internet because how are you able to tell what people are thinking on the radio?
You can't see their facial expressions to see what they may even be thinking.

Really? You aren't able to make an educated guess as to what somebody may be thinking or feeling by listening to their voice alone? Inflection? Tone? Nervousness? Pauses? Whether they are sound engaged and in command of the subject - or simply sound bored, distracted, out of their depth or unable to construct a coherent thought? If anything, facial expressions can mask a person's true feelings as we can train ourselves to express one thing with our features whilst our words convey something completely different. It's not infalliable, obviously - but spoken words and how we use them are a far more instinctive and powerful indication of a person's true feelings that how they arrange their face.

 

[Raleigh Chopper]

Really? You aren't able to make an educated guess as to what somebody may be thinking or feeling by listening to their voice alone? Inflection? Tone? Nervousness? Pauses? Whether they are sound engaged and in command of the subject - or simply sound bored, distracted, out of their depth or unable to construct a coherent thought? If anything, facial expressions can mask a person's true feelings as we can train ourselves to express one thing with our features whilst our words convey something completely different. It's not infalliable, obviously - but spoken words and how we use them are a far more instinctive and powerful indication of a person's true feelings that how they arrange their face.

Clement Fraud continously sounded and looked bored on the radio and TV and yet he was one of the most engaging, funny and interesting personalities to grace the airwaves.
Facial expressions can hide true feelings but the eyes are a dead give away, happy, sad, frightened or bored.
For example Katie Price, always banging on about not caring what people think or say about her with that not caring look on her face, but her eyes say something completely different.
Anyway I did not post as a wind up because I have watched R5L over the internet before and I wondered if you are still able to, especially this programme as it sounds good, especially with Sutton and Richards who I both like but I would prefer to see them.
On BT Sport score, Sutton winding up Savage was a treat to watch.

 

[Bry Nylon]

Clement Fraud continously sounded and looked bored on the radio and TV and yet he was one of the most engaging, funny and interesting personalities to grace the airwaves.
Facial expressions can hide true feelings but the eyes are a dead give away, happy, sad, frightened or bored.
For example Katie Price, always banging on about not caring what people think or say about her with that not caring look on her face, but her eyes say something completely different.
Anyway I did not post as a wind up because I have watched R5L over the internet before and I wondered if you are still able to, especially this programme as it sounds good, especially with Sutton and Richards who I both like but I would prefer to see them.
On BT Sport score, Sutton winding up Savage was a treat to watch.

Yes. Agree with all of that, RC.

On your second point, the Monday Night Club was occasionally made available to watch as well as just listen to during the lockdown periods last year, which, for the reasons you outline actually made it a far more enjoyable experience as you got a bit of insight into the presenter's lives as they were broadcasting from home.

Mark Chapman was in what looked like a box room and you could see he was keeping the whole show on the road by continually looking at his monitor to scan and read listener's emails, follow production notes and introduce topics etc. A really skilled job which he certainly makes sound far easier than I'm sure it is. Behind him, hanging on the door, were about a billion NFL and Open Championship press passes on lanyards.

Micah Richards was in the back bedroom of his house in Harrogate, perched on a stool and wolfing down a plate a protein and what looked like a set of bunk beds in the background. The best one however was Chris Sutton, sprawled on a leather Chesterfield in his Norfolk home, surrounded by family pictures and portraits and books and looking like he hadn't a care in the world. Can't recall Rory Smith's place - I think he was just in a very business-like home office.

So yes - occasionally the show is available to view as well as just listen to and it does add something to the experience when the BBC choose to do this. None more so than when Chapman started the show by inviting Micah Richards to share his thoughts on the previous nights FA Cup tie between Everton and Sheff Weds (I think). The picture cut to a flustered Richards who had a look of pure "WTF?!" in his eyes.
It was at this point that Mark Chapman played in a recording of an answer phone message that Micah Richards had left on the producer's phone the day before that went something like, "Hi mate- Micah here. Are we going to review this Everton game tomorrow? Only I really can't be bothered to watch it. I'm all footballed out today. Cheers mate."

 

[Dick Knights Mumm]

Rory Smith has never recovered in my eyes from an early rant about the Amex. The gist of it was he’d be happy to see us relegated as he had a problem getting away from the ground after a game. Boo hoo. ****.

 

[Bozza]

As you know, I am similarly bereft at the loss of the incomparable Anna Foster from my weekday afternoons/ early evenings; but having said that I thought Jacqui Oatley did a fine, fine job today. She is another natural broadcaster and seemed to strike a good rapport with Tony Livesey. Not sure if she is the permanent new presenter but I would be very happy with the choice if she is.

With all the goings-on in the Middle East, Anna has been popping up on the BBC a lot recently.

When you read bits like this, on the BBC live blog thing...

"I’d just finished presenting the BBC News at Ten from our rooftop position in central Beirut when we heard a loud explosion.​

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I span around to see the orange flash and flames reflected in the windows of the buildings around a mile away.​

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It looked like it came from a small Shia area with a Hezbollah presence, but far from the southern suburbs of Dahiyeh.​

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I’ve walked there before - it’s not far from where I used to live - and like other parts of this city it’s densely populated.​

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This is an airstrike not far from downtown - in central Beirut - and will cause fresh fear to people living in the Lebanese capital."​

...I wonder how she feels about the move from a cosy studio in Manchester to the middle of a warzone. I guess when you want to move to the Middle East, and from what I recall, it was something she was very excited about, you expect this sort of thing sooner or later.

Not for me though, Clive (Myrie) - I'm too much of a wuss.

 

[Ooh it’s a corner]

With all the goings-on in the Middle East, Anna has been popping up on the BBC a lot recently.

When you read bits like this, on the BBC live blog thing...

"I’d just finished presenting the BBC News at Ten from our rooftop position in central Beirut when we heard a loud explosion.​

​

I span around to see the orange flash and flames reflected in the windows of the buildings around a mile away.​

​

It looked like it came from a small Shia area with a Hezbollah presence, but far from the southern suburbs of Dahiyeh.​

​

I’ve walked there before - it’s not far from where I used to live - and like other parts of this city it’s densely populated.​

​

This is an airstrike not far from downtown - in central Beirut - and will cause fresh fear to people living in the Lebanese capital."​

...I wonder how she feels about the move from a cosy studio in Manchester to the middle of a warzone. I guess when you want to move to the Middle East, and from what I recall, it was something she was very excited about, you expect this sort of thing sooner or later.

Not for me though, Clive (Myrie) - I'm too much of a wuss.

She’s great Bozza I agree. She presented the lunchtime BBC news for a while recently so I wondered if she’d done her stint in the Middle East but clearly not(brave woman, one of many of course).

(I guessed when you liked a couple of my very old posts there must have been a reason)