Tune in to www.cardiffradio.org tomorrow between 3 and 5 UK time for my radio debut. I’ll blog after the show and let you know how it went.

Picturesque Street is a Radio 4 documentary that was produced in October this year. I wrote this blog at the time, but as I’ve only just started up the website, I thought I would post it here as well.

Unfortunately, I did not understand the point of this programme. I believe that the documentary maker was trying to portray how different Russia is today compared to its difficult past. He was trying to show that elements of that communist state still exist between the rich and the poor, those who understand what needs to happen to make Russia a better place and those who do not. The presenter sometimes sounded as if he were reading from a script and did not sound natural at all. The sound effects were used really well and he did use a mixture of people to try and convey his point. I felt that the presenter was more of a narrator than a journalist asking questions. It would have been better to actually hear him interview people rather than something along the lines of “I asked … what they thought of …”

I felt that pitching this programme for Radio 4 was a really good option. I do not believe that this programme would have worked for a Radio one audience. It may also have been a good programme for the world service.