:00:31. > :00:36.Welcome to Newswatch. Later, many of you are critical of the
:00:36. > :00:41.performance of BBC newsreaders. Could you do any better? We set up
:00:41. > :00:46.that challenge for one viewer. Before that, complaints about BBC
:00:46. > :00:55.News come from all quarters, including Number 11 Downing Street.
:00:55. > :00:59.Here is George Osborne on Radio 4. I've not yet heard of a single news
:00:59. > :01:04.bulletin saying that a single job has been created. Last year, there
:01:04. > :01:08.was a disappointing manufacturing survey. Today, there is a more
:01:08. > :01:14.encouraging survey. It is not on at the news. I am asking for a bit of
:01:14. > :01:23.balance. It is certainly true there has been a bit of bad economic news.
:01:23. > :01:28.Should the BBC cheer up? The squeeze on household has tightened,
:01:28. > :01:37.with the annual inflation rate a jobbing to 4.4%, well ahead that
:01:37. > :01:47.average pay rises. -- jumping. Today's figures show total UK
:01:47. > :01:48.
:01:48. > :01:53.unemployment is at its highest since 1994. Always look on the
:01:53. > :02:01.bright side of life. Rising energy prices, higher VAT and government
:02:01. > :02:06.spending cuts have contributed to a week UK budget this year. But are
:02:06. > :02:12.those stories a fair reflection of the BBC's output or a fair
:02:12. > :02:19.reflection of the economy? Many Newswatch correspondents agree with
:02:19. > :02:29.the Chancellor, that we concentrate too much on bad news. This at the
:02:29. > :02:52.
:02:52. > :03:02.US sent us an e-mail to say: -- The editor of BBC News's business
:03:02. > :03:27.
:03:27. > :03:31.unit a road in response to the Now, it may not surprise you to
:03:31. > :03:34.hear that we receive numerous comments about newsreaders and
:03:34. > :03:44.presenters, how they speak, what they wear, whether they stand up
:03:44. > :04:03.
:04:04. > :04:11.all sit down. This fewer asked: -- OK, point taken. But on Monday's
:04:11. > :04:14.News, this news reader did just that. Scientists say there may be a
:04:15. > :04:18.step closer to answering the big questions about the origins of the
:04:18. > :04:24.Universe. Teams using a big particle accelerator say they have
:04:24. > :04:34.made a breakthrough in the study of antimatter. Dramatic stuff, but not
:04:34. > :04:46.
:04:46. > :04:51.Tricky and controversial. When you get onto news presenters and their
:04:51. > :05:01.delivery, the criticisms get rather more pointed. Last week, Stanley
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:05:31. > :05:41.While Christina wrote on one Mikael had someone else in mind: --
:05:41. > :06:13.
:06:13. > :06:18.You may or may not be able to guess which specific presenters were
:06:18. > :06:24.being referred to in some of those e-mails. Another person who wrote
:06:24. > :06:34.to us with criticism was an Chadwick from Stoke-on-Trent, who
:06:34. > :06:36.
:06:36. > :06:40.asked if she could do any better. - - Anne. Thank you very much. I
:06:40. > :06:43.first contacted Newswatch because I watch a lot of news and that all
:06:43. > :06:47.the presenters could talk a bit more fluently than they do. They
:06:47. > :06:51.make it look so easy for most of the time, especially the famous
:06:51. > :06:55.presenters who everybody knows about to do the be bulletins. When
:06:55. > :07:00.things don't go quite as well as they would like, it shows up more.
:07:00. > :07:05.I would like to know how difficult it is.
:07:05. > :07:09.To help them along, she is joined by Ian Blandford, who has coached
:07:09. > :07:13.many presenters on BBC and elsewhere and will give our novice
:07:13. > :07:18.some tips. I make a living looking after presenters and helping
:07:18. > :07:23.presenters look as natural as they do on television. We say, be
:07:23. > :07:28.yourself. But also, read the autocue. Sometimes they have never
:07:28. > :07:32.seen it but it has to look like it is coming from them and they also
:07:32. > :07:37.have all sorts of noise going on in their ears. I wanted to ask you
:07:37. > :07:47.about that. How do you cope having someone's voice enjoyed here when
:07:47. > :07:49.
:07:49. > :07:55.you are reading from the screen? -- in your ear. We set her three tasks,
:07:55. > :08:04.the ones news presenters normally face. The first challenge is to get
:08:04. > :08:08.a script and read it to the autocue. Hello and welcome to this special
:08:08. > :08:12.edition of the news. It's been revealed that presenting television
:08:12. > :08:22.news programmes is not as hard as it looks. One presenter has told
:08:22. > :08:24.the BBC that anyone can do it. next thing we are going to do is
:08:24. > :08:28.I'm going to be a foreign correspondent, in the Middle East,
:08:28. > :08:33.and it is a story which happens a lot. It pops up and we don't know
:08:33. > :08:37.too much about it. You have to have a chat about what is going on.
:08:37. > :08:42.we go to allow Middle East correspondent, in Blandford, who
:08:42. > :08:47.was in Syria. Can you hear me? can. Can you tell me what is going
:08:47. > :08:53.on where you like? The Middle East seems to be a set of toppling
:08:53. > :09:03.dominoes at the moment. We are but that -- about to present -- pretend
:09:03. > :09:06.
:09:06. > :09:13.that the live link is going down. I'm very sorry, we appear to have
:09:13. > :09:17.lost our correspondent. Nick Clegg has said the Liberal Democrats will
:09:17. > :09:23.be more muscular in government. am back now. We want you to read a
:09:23. > :09:30.bit more script from the autocue and interview me. I'm joined now by
:09:30. > :09:36.the Liberal Democrat MP Ian Blandford. So how long have you
:09:36. > :09:41.been an MP? I've been an MP for the last 15 years. What is your record
:09:42. > :09:48.in government? Up to now, as you know, not that successful. It's not
:09:48. > :09:50.going rather well. Now we will tester skills further by giving her
:09:50. > :09:59.some other important breaking news via her earpiece. I'm afraid I'm
:09:59. > :10:04.going to have to cut you off. An election has been announced.
:10:04. > :10:09.Presenters handling breaking news. In this case, we have had the floor
:10:09. > :10:19.manager hand down some news for her to read. Apart from that, she has
:10:19. > :10:28.to basket. Did -- busk it. seats are needed for an overall
:10:28. > :10:32.So, this is the news, that the coalition has fallen, that Nick
:10:32. > :10:38.Clegg and David Cameron are no longer the best of friends. So what
:10:38. > :10:42.did our expert think? I bought one bit was great. You had warmth and
:10:42. > :10:46.you were relaxed. He did a good job interviewing me. Thank you very
:10:46. > :10:51.much. The last bit with the breaking news, that was probably
:10:51. > :10:55.the toughest bit? I think so. I had a script to work from that I had to
:10:55. > :11:00.improvise with the camera. How has it made you think about the job
:11:00. > :11:05.that these guys to day today? made me think it's a lot more
:11:05. > :11:09.difficult than that thought it was. It wasn't the most scientific of
:11:09. > :11:14.exercises but she certainly learned something from the experience and
:11:14. > :11:19.despite her modesty, showed the professionals a thing or two.
:11:19. > :11:27.Thanks very much to our guinea pig, and Chadwick and her coach and
:11:27. > :11:32.guide, Ian Blandford. -- Anne. If you want to give us your views or
:11:32. > :11:39.opinions, you can call last or e- mail us. Those details are on the
:11:39. > :11:49.screen. You can find us on Twitter. Thanks for watching. You could be
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:11:52. > :11:56.making our news or even reading it We are going to see the unsettled
:11:56. > :12:02.weather continue over the weekend. Today, sunshine and showers but for
:12:02. > :12:08.Sunday, more persistent rain from the South and staying quite call. A
:12:08. > :12:12.cool start to this morning. There should be a lot of sunshine around.
:12:12. > :12:22.Just the odd shower. And mostly dry start for the Midlands and northern
:12:22. > :12:24.
:12:24. > :12:29.parts of England. One or two match showers in the north-west. -- two.
:12:29. > :12:34.The odd a shower in the northern coast of northern Ireland. It is
:12:34. > :12:38.dry and fairly bright for Northern Ireland. A fairly chilly start for
:12:38. > :12:43.Wales. There are a few showers hugging the western coast.
:12:43. > :12:46.Temperatures in Swansea and Cardiff about 11 degrees. Similar
:12:46. > :12:54.conditions in the south-west. A few showers towards Plymouth and
:12:54. > :12:59.Cornwall. Showers and more cloud in the south-east corner. A few
:12:59. > :13:04.showers and the Home Counties. The showers will gather elsewhere
:13:04. > :13:08.across the UK. Not as heavy or intensive as we had yesterday. We
:13:08. > :13:14.could have a few heavy downpours in the north-east of England, sudden
:13:14. > :13:21.Scotland or persistent rain in the far north of Scotland. -- sudden.