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Getting a word in edgeways…..(Or how not to get lost on a panel!)

I was feeling less nervous than the previous time. I can’t have been that bad I thought, as I made my way to BBC Broadcasting House to take part in Radio 4’s The Media Show, or they wouldn’t have invited me back. (In media training we always say a repeat invitation is a sign of a successful interview). But the challenge, of taking part in a 4-way panel discussion, looking under the PR bonnet, was different from the previous programme which had been a much shorter debate between myself and a university professor, who was arguing the virtues of a degree programme in journalism and PR.

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