The Voice of the People
Listening to Gary Robertson on Morning Extratoday it's clear that listeners across Scotland have very strong and very different opinions about the new partnership ceremonies for gay and lesbian couples. The Bible was quoted by many callers and more than one person said that God created Adam & Eve, not Adam & Steve. The programme was the talk of the steamie at the BBC, with one senior colleague in television popping his head around my door to tell me how much he'd enjoyed it. So what does that add to our current thinking about the phone-in format? We discussed it at our fortnightly creative management meeting this afternoon. The consensus was that radio phone-ins provide a useful, if not scientific, snapshot of public opinion. More than once I've heard that many of our MSPs listen to Morning Extra for that reason.
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