0261 – The Red Hat Mystery

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2021.09.18 – 0261 – The Red Hat Mystery

Those examples were with a single word, so now let’s try a similar exercise with the basic sentence

“I didn’t say Roger took the red hat”. How we say each of those words, in relation to the others, helps explain more of meaning behind the statement than the actual words themselves.

I didn’t say Roger took the red hat

I didn’t say that – but Maddy did.

I didn’t say Roger took the red hat

I said nothing of the sort. Everything you say is false. I didn’t say anything to anyone about anything.

I didn’t say Roger took the red hat

All I did was suggest that Roger was probably the last person to see it. I didn’t say he actually took it.

I didn’t say Roger took the red hat

I said that Robin took it.

I didn’t say Roger took the red hat

I just said that he borrowed it.

I didn’t say Roger took the red hat

I meant that Roger was wearing a red hat when I saw him, but I don’t think it was the same red hat you’re referring to.

I didn’t say Roger took the red hat

… but he told me that he’d taken the green one.

I didn’t say Roger took the red hat

… but I know he took the red shirt.

Audio recording script and show notes (c) 2021 Peter Stewart

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Peter has been around voice and audio all his working life and

has trained hundreds of broadcasters in all styles of radio from pop music

stations such as Capital FM and BBC Radio 1 to Heart FM, the classical music

station BBC Radio 3 and regional BBC stations. He’s trained news presenters on

regional TV, the BBC News Channel and on flagship programmes such as the BBC’s

Panorama. Other trainees have been music presenters, breakfast show hosts,

travel news presenters and voice-over artists.

He has written a number of books on audio and video presentation

and production (“Essential Radio Journalism”, “JournoLists”, two editions of

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written on voice and presentation skills in the BBC’s in-house newspaper

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Peter has presented hundreds of radio shows (you may have heard

him on BBC Radio 2, BBC Radio 4, Virgin Radio or Kiss, as well as BBC regional

radio) with formats as diverse as music-presentation, interview shows,

‘special’ programmes for elections and budgets, live outside broadcasts and

commentaries and even the occasional sports, gardening and dedication

programmes. He has read several thousand news bulletins, and hosted nearly

2,000 podcast episodes, and is a vocal image consultant advising in all aspects

of voice and speech training for presenters on radio and TV, podcasts and

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"Bleeping Demo" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

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