Is much lost in the edit?
Editing is the great alchemy of radio if you're not doing things live. In my own case, and I can't speak for anybody else, we record it as close as we can to live. If we overrun for time, we'll edit stuff out. I'll leave the listeners to be the judge, and the users to be the judge - we don't leave in much fat, other than my good self. We don't leave in anything that we need to take out - we are very lucky like that. Often, the shows are edited from forty-seven minutes material to forty-five. Nothing is thrown out if we can avoid it, because we try to run it exactly as live. the reason for that could be the laziness of the other producer, who doesn't want to do a lot of editing. I actually think it is a very good discipline. If you fail, you only have seven minutes on topic X, you'll try to get your best stuff up to the top of your remarks. The problem with long shows, and I've done those too, is that if you've got three hours, you'll often start husbanding your resources and saving stuff for later on. In something like a podcast where it is unusual for them to be super-long, it's a good discipline to get what you've got to say, say it, and move on. We record it as live, with very little editing.
