BahaiBlog

I’ve had such fun looking at a whole range of blogs by Baha’is. Baha’i Blog is one of them and is well worth reading.

I’ve been blogging for a while now, but have only just realized just how many Baha’i blogs there are.

I have just finished four scripts for Pause for Thought for BBC Radio 2. I’ll be recording these on Monday 15 March. Three of them will air on 5, 6 and 7 April, but I’m not sure when the fourth one will be broadcast.

The scripts are ‘Baha’i-lite’. I’ve been writing ‘pause for thought’ type scripts for many years. I did several series on the BBC World Service, but the ones I’ve been doing for the last few years go out sometime before 6.30am on BBC Radio 2’s Sarah Kennedy show. I used to write about the Faith much more directly than I do now. Apparently Sarah Kennedy’s listeners can’t take anything too heavy at that time of the morning, so the scripts have to have a story - preferably personal to me - and make a moderate moral point.

The problem is that I really prefer BBC Radio 4, much more heavyweight. My thinking and writing style is much more Radio 4 than Radio 2, so I have to put myself in a particular frame of mind to write these scripts. This means they take a long time to write and the fee I get paid for writing and recording them comes down to a rather pathetic hourly rate.

Anyway, to give you a sense of what they’re like, here’s one I made earlier…

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Seventy-five minutes! I have never been so long in the dentist’s chair. I had two treatments: a filling in a back tooth that’s crumbling away - it’ll need a crown, Ken (the dentist) says, so I’d better save up for that; and the removal of the root of one of my incisors.

Now that’s already probably more than you wanted to know, but I have to tell you that the whole thing was entirely painless, even the drilling into the back of the front tooth to get at the root. Ken kept putting longer and longer bits into his drill, and there was a horrible smell of burning as he drilled. But no pain, not even any discomfort. Well, that’s discounting the effort of keeping my mouth wide open for 75 minutes.

Actually, the greatest pain was to my bank balance. Ken’s been my dentist for the best part of 20 years and he’s damned good. So even though he only does private work and even though I have to drive an hour and a half to get from home to his office, I’m staying with him as long as I can.

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