Bad taste or bad luck

Posted by: fatcat on 10 May 2008

Just after a BBC newsreader states the official death toll in Burma is at least 10,000, a voice is heard to say "very good"

1hr 23 min 26 seconds into the broadcast below

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/mainframe.shtml?http://w...ml?fivelive/uan1_tue

Obviously the comment was not meant to be heard by the programs listeners.

But, was it bad taste or bad luck.

Posted on: 10 May 2008 by u5227470736789439

Or related to something entirely else? George

Posted on: 10 May 2008 by KenM

It was just an unfortunate mistake which could have happened to anyone. Even me,<G>.

Ken

Posted on: 10 May 2008 by 555

Sounds like a switching or mixing error to me.
The words 'very good' were probably a piece of unrelated audio that were transmitted in error.

Posted on: 11 May 2008 by djftw

Would tend to agree with 555, people working at the BBC must know how sensitive recording mikes are. Much more likely to be a cock-up, there's a lot of work to do in a very short space of time when you're broadcasting live, and they're bound to happen. News 24 quite often end up playing one video whilst the newsreader is still talking about something else.