And You Shall Know Me By The TV Trail

My radio show is currently featured in a TV trail for BBC Northern Ireland. The music you hear is a live recording of Southern, playing their most excellent 'People Said'. Thank you Tom and Lucy Southern, who also feature for a few seconds in the clip. For the remainder, you hear me blether about the Monday night Late Show, the welcoming sweep of the playlist and the inspiring value of music.

I'm unlikely to be hearing from modeling agencies off the back of this, but the programme was decently summarised, I didn't talk like a chump and happily, I didn't use the word "passion". Which isn't to say that there's no emotional investment in the night. I think that's at the core of it all. However, politicians, traveling salesmen and chancers of every persuasion use "passion" the way that restaurateurs put a slice of tomato and a lettuce leaf to the side of every dish. It's merely routine. They don't mean it, man. The rest of us can do better and indeed, that's how we set our compass and our intent.