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Thirty years ago the Today program was unpredictable to the point of chaos with presenter Jack da Manio improvising and thinking
Thirty years ago the Today program was unpredictable to the point of chaos with presenter Jack da Manio improvising and thinking
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2010-01-15
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Thirty years ago the Today program was unpredictable to the point of chaos with presenter Jack da Manio improvising and thinking aloud, always eager for a joke or a prank. Through the studio trooped a procession of English eccentrics a man who ate light bulbs, another who ate spiders, a chap who was touring the country leapfrogging all the pillar boxes, a hard-headed individual who could play Rule Britannia by hitting himself on the head with a nine-inch spanner and many others. Talking dogs and singing cats were almost commonplace.
By the mid-70s, however, Today had got to the point where, for example, it had on one morning Libby Purves making the first "live" radio broadcast from China, someone else in Dublin covering the pope’s visit, another presenter in Margate where the Liberals were conferring, and an anchorman in London.
When you have reached this stage, there is no room for talking dogs, and humor and whims have to be confined to odd corners.
Despite its more serious approach, however, Today has somehow retained its character and its tone of voice. And being a live, high-risk program, it can still go horribly wrong. Only recently an eminent doctor launched into a lengthy on-air harangue against the production team and refused to listen to the questions he was supposed to be answering. Such things can always happen and so can studio rows, sometimes even involving the presenters. There was a memorable spat not long ago when a rattled Nigel Lawson accused Redhead of being a well-known supporter of the Labor Party.
But rows or no rows, Today is where the ministers and would-be ministers want to be heard. As Brian Redhead is fond of saying: "If you want to plant a word in the nation’s ear, come on Today." His other favorite remark is: "We set the agenda for the day." Both statements are true of a program with a steady weekly audience of 6 million easily the largest on Radio 4.
According to the passage, the Today program is______.
选项
A、extremely influential
B、becoming less popular
C、fairly obscure
D、politically biased
答案
A
解析
本题要求读者根据原文对当今的Today节目作出评价。首先可将B、C两项排除,因为节目发展到今天,由以前以娱乐为主发展为世界性的直播节目,受到越来越多的人的关注,因此说它“less popular”和“obscure”是与现实相违背的。文中虽然提到 Nigel Lawson控诉该节目主持人支持工党,但这只是个人的主观意见,并不足以从客观的角度说明该节目具有政治偏见。由文章的最后一段所讲到的政客们的愿望和 Brian Redhead的话可知,Today节目是相当具有影响力的。
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