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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Monkey

And now, live from the Death Star ...

To BBC Radio 5 Live, where its drive-time programme hosted by Peter Allen and Anita Anand was rightly proud of its exclusive interview with an NHS whistleblower. But Monkey wonders if they could have found another way of disguising his voice than slowing it down and giving it the "Darth Vader" treatment - 1 hour and 44 minutes into Tuesday afternoon's show - which rather distracted from the points he was trying to make. Perhaps they could employ an actor next time round? More audio issues later on the same show, with an outside broadcast from the Tamil protests in central London. "It's noisy where you are," Anand told reporter Lesley Ashmall, 2 hours and 11 minutes in. She wasn't kidding.

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