This week: when things go wrong in radio. We hear some famous radio 'bloopers', where everything goes wrong while the presenters are on air. We explore vocabulary related to mistakes and radio. Practise the phrases you learn in the programme with the table below.
| Vocabulary used in the show |
| a blooper | an embarrassing or funny mistake made when recording a television or radio programme |
| to slip up | to make a mistake |
| a technical problem | a problem with euipment or systems |
| to get the giggles | to laugh quietly and uncontrollably at something in a rather childish way |
| she can't contain herself | she can't take control of her emotions |
| dead air | silence (in radio) |
| to ad lib, to improvise | to make things up as you going along, without preparation or script |
| getting him to pay is like getting blood from a stone | it's very difficult to get him to pay |
| the conversation dried up | the conversation stopped because no-one knew what to say |
| awkward silences | uncomfortable silences |
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