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Tuesday, January 02, 2007

I'm eating away at my 15 minutes of fame in easy-to-swallow 5-minute chunks. So what did you think of my latest stint of prime-time exposure?

Okay, for those of your who possibly weren't listening to Radio Five Live at 2AM this morning, and missed the "Pods and Blogs" show, the BBC have a convenient listen again feature.

Follow that link, and after about 3 minutes you'll hear a guy called Simon talking about "Becky T's Blog", but it is me. Honest.

[Update: The Listen Again link only worked for a week. However, Siobhan helpfully converted it to MP3 format for me.

Becky on BBC Radio Five Live's Pods and Blogs]

I always thought I had a face for radio. ;-)

Joanna Yay... great stuff.

Anonymous Very good. Intelligent, eloquent and sober.

Siobhan Curran Ooooh. *applause*

April Angell bravo! I am trying to write something eloquent about radio being better than telly because of the lack of the visual element removing chances for cheap sensationalism. so yeah. that. basically. something I've always held in my head as a theory and I'm so glad to see it proved admirably by your good self.

Vic You sound just I imagined.

Alli' Cat' Cool. Today Radio 5, tomorrow the world!
It was strange hearing your voice. Thank god you haven't got some kind of strong regional accent - I think that would have "done me 'ead in" as they say around my neck of the woods!
Pity that the dude interviewing you kept getting the blog name wrong. Still, he was close enough for jazz. You going to be monitoring your traffic to see if it causes a spike?
Anyhow, good on you - one small step for trankind :-)

Becky T Dammit, that's my handle, that is. Several years ago, I was the only Becky I knew, now there are so many they're confusing everyone as to who's who. Nice interview though! And it's always interesting to hear how people sound, when you've only ever read their words.

Lucinda You came across as sensible and intelligent. Very good radio. Why Becky tease I thought. Becky is enough. Not 3 minutes of fame when you can punch the same weight as a major medie player who hasn't quiet understood this blog/Podcast thingy. No wonder they report it as peaked. When in reality people like me can throw away their television and use broadband and of-course wireless to be more upto date than the printed media.
It was so very nice to hear you say it is a social thing. My words "and not a medical/mental thing". You did need to separate the fun thing from the serious thing. The transvestite name tag should be reserved for those who just want social fun. We don't have to do it, but we do if we feel like it. You presented a very clean image.
You are famous and pleasant.

Steph Jones Such shameless self-promotion.

Nice one! :-)

Becky "You are famous and pleasant."

That's the nicest thing anyone's ever said to me, Lucinda. :-D

Anonymous WOW! Fantastic Becky! That really is great. And they took you seriously, did you have editorial control then :-)

Becky LOL, none whatsoever Penny. I just made sure I didn't say anything I wouldn't want to hear on the radio. :-)

Actually the interviewer, Chris Vallance, was excellent, a really nice guy who'd taken time to look round my blog and ask some genuinely thoughtful questions.

vikki_cduk wow 2007 and I'm starting to listen to podcasts! (its my first one)

thought the piece was well researched and quite balanced - oh and you came across as a well rounded 'personality'

congrats

Lynn Jones Well done you! Informative and interesting to hear.

With these five minute podcasts you are really spoiling us, Tranny Ambassador! :-)

Daisy Wow what a cool thing. That was the first thing in the media about trannies that I didn't think made us sound odd or strange. It even sounded like a cool gang to be in. I'm currently (never say never) happy in the closet so I've (to my knowledge) never met another tranny and your voice and Becky's face don't tie up in my head. What I'm trying to say as what you said about not being very good at passing seems to do you a little injustice. One thing that made me laugh is I know what you (Becky) look like and I now know what you sound like, so I can now fully appreciate the time you blogged about doing "It's a wonderful world" in karaoke.

Miss K That's just superb! It makes such a difference when both the interviewer and interviewee are intelligent, true and thoughtful.

Stephanie R great interview bex. and the bloke interviewing you didn't seem disconcerted or anything.
I imagined you to have a bit of a london accent before I heard you.

Vic Have you ever thought about Becky doing a piece to camera and putting it on the site?

Anonymous Very good PR for the T* community, Becky.

I did't, initally, read the after 3 minutes bit, and thought "God, shes got a realistic voice for a tranny...."

Pandora Caitiff That was cool. Pretty matter-of-fact style, and that seemed to rub off on the presenter who took it all in stride. That not the voice I was expecting at all.

Shame he called it "Becky T's" Blog though.

Tiffany Yeah, as usual when I hear these sort of things, I'm just gonna swoon over your British accent. 'Kay? 'Kay.

Lynn Jones Okay, serious question this time. So, how did the Beeb approach you? That and how did you manage not to blab as soon as they asked? :)

Helen Nice one Becky, an excellent interview that can only give a good image of the Trans Community. Well done and congrats on the engagement.

Anonymous Hi Becky , great interview .

Anonymous :-) nice one.

Anonymous For some reason my old iBook doesn't like the BBC feed; I'll fiddle around and try to get a listen. In the meantime, congratulations!

Carolyn Ann

Anonymous Gosh Becky...I'll just have to get in line to congratulate you on this one. But it's well deserved :-) Thoughtful, sensible, honest...nice one!

Well done hon :-)

Becky "So, how did the Beeb approach you? That and how did you manage not to blab as soon as they asked?"

I just got an email from the presenter a couple of days beforehand asking if I'd record a short piece on Monday evening. I didn't blab a) because I wanted to hear what I sounded like before I told anyone, and b) because I didn't think a short radio interview on Radio Five Live at 2 in the morning was that big a deal. :-)

Anonymous Nicely put across.

Although I had it in mind you would sound like Arthur Mullard :o)

Lynn Jones > short radio interview on
> Radio Five Live

Pants on fire? ;-) I can dig (can you say that still?) not wanting to tell folk until you'd done it.

Still, top marks and gold stars all round.

Gordon Tres elegant est ummm.. bugger my french is awful. Well said though ya big tease ;-)

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