Audience trounce Today team in quiz

Posted by Axegrinder on 1 November 2007 at 08:02
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With BBC types celebrating 50 years of the Today programme, one man who’s missing the festivities is Roger Hermiston, the programme’s assistant editor who is on a four-month “attachment” with the Beeb’s documentary department.

Hermiston – now working on a programme about how the media have covered the Madeline McCann story – did, however, find time to join his colleagues for a drink (or two) at the Radio Academy last week when they staged a Today programme quiz.

In case you missed it, a team made up of past and present presenters such as Sue MacGregor, Sarah Montague and Carolyn Quinn – joined by reporter Mike Thompson and current editor Ceri Thomas – were beaten by an audience of Today listeners and some past staffers.

This humiliation is not as bad as it sounds, though. The audience was made up of a host of ex-Today editors including Phil Harding – who along with Hermiston displayed their immense knowledge about the programme’s history.

Incidentally, the quiz was set by Sunday Times radio critic Paul Donovan, who wrote a book about the BBC’s flagship radio programme some years ago.

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