What keeps you interested in doing this?

What keeps you interested in doing this?

I was thrilled when I was asked to do a Podcast. I've been doing radio broadcasting for 20 years, and it was a chance to do something slightly different. You've got to have an inquiring mind, and it's genuinely got to be bothered about the events of the day and expressing them. The last thing that keeps you going with this is that it can sound a bit phony, but it's true - I want to do the best work I can. You can hear it when people are going out there and just going through the motions. Radio can be the most turgid and stolid of all media. Podcasts are exactly the same, if people that are good at it are getting into it and it's not about shouting loud. Sometimes you can be very quiet and be just absolutely brilliant at it. When people are still pushing themselves, pushing the material to the limit, it's an absolutely brilliant medium and it's like trying to make sure that the mixture of language, knowledge, interaction, and entertainment is being pushed up, pushed up, whisked up, and it keeps me wanting to do it. I wouldn't do it if I was just going through the motions. I really wouldn't.