coming to you live

Having been asked on Friday afternoon by BBC Radio Leicester to provide someone involved in both the Council of Faiths and the Faiths Leaders Forum to be interviewed live on air just after eight this morning - and having circulated this request among the likely candidates on Friday - I still don't know for certain who (if anyone) will appear on the airwaves. I'm sure that someone is going to do it, otherwise the BBC would have called me - wouldn't they? The consensus was that our Chair, Manjula Sood, should be the one, but she thought it might be a little too early for her. After the news at eight, I'm glad to hear she's in the studio, taking questions from presenter Ben Jackson about the forthcoming dual protests in the city by the English Defence League (EDL) and Unite Against Fascism (UAF). She's impassioned, persuasive and reasonable - as I'd expect her to be - and doesn't buy into that convention where the host apparently has to ask the kind of questions that only the dumbest and least informed listener would think of.