22nd April 2009
We talk to the boss of oil giant Chevron, Dubliner David O’Reilly, on future global energy needs and electric cars in Ireland; Clifford Coonan reports from the Shanghai motor show on how China is now the world’s number one car market; Peugeot has high hopes for its new crossover SUV - Paddy Comyn reports from the international launch; and we answer your questions in our first audio Motors helpdesk.
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Tags: Chevron, Clifford Coonan, David O'Reilly, electric cars, global energy, Peugeot, scrappage
Hi, I like the show but have a couple of niggles on production:
[1] Why does Paddy Comyn have to acccept the barbarous corporate pronunciation of Peugot foisted on the public by Peugot Ireland? I believe the programme is sponsored by Bridgestone, so there is no reason to follow Peugot Ireland’s corporate style. The pronunciation of Mercedes is a more complex issue, but I noticed that at least two pronunciations were used on Torque, neither being the one I am most familiar with.
[2] The production uses a background soundtrack technique that has become ubiquitous and irritates me — everything has to be ‘hurried along’ by a rhythm track, - the message I receive when I hear this is “This is going to be a rushed, superficial item, we have better things to be doing than providing detailed programme content”. It makes programming sound like an advertisement. The example I’m thinking of is the item on electric cars — why not give some substantial facts rather than the vox pop — for example, have Dublin City Council or any otherr urban authorities begun to plan for providing electric car charging stations or sockets?
Hi Paul,
In answer to part two of your question we like our theme tune! However we do only use it at the beginning and end of each show and not during any of the features like some other shows!
As for part one … that’s an old favourite on how to pronounce the brand name in question. It really is a case of what we’re used to and that way of pronouncing it is what Paddy is used to!
Cheers
Dusty
Programme Producer