Speaking on the radio

I am doing a radio interview next Thursday for Resonance FM with Jack Thurston of The Bike Show. This is an interesting thing for me.  I'm used to speaking in public for small or larger audiences, but sitting across the room with just one person and a hidden audience is something new and a little intimidating.  To the rescue comes my next door neighbour Simon Mattacks who just happens to be one of the country's leading voice-over artists and voice coaches.  So I nipped next door to sit in his studio and have him rehearse me for an hour or so.  The first thing he told me was that I would need a glass of water.  My God!, I needed about a gallon of water.  There is something about it, nerves etc. that turns your throat dry.  With help from Simon , I got my earphone levels right and started to make a bit of sense.  What was clear to me, which was I suppose bleeding obvious, was that I needed to be really precise about what I was going to say.  Well I thought I knew the contents of my book pretty well.  I wrote it don'tcha know. It turns out, not really.   So how did cycling contribute to interwar modernity?  Well, cough, it's very complicated, um, y'know.  Anyway, there is time for a bit of rehearsal before the day and it turns out that Jack wants to hear some readings from one of my primary sources, an odd book by an odd guy who cycled round suburban London in the late 1930s.  That should be more straightforward.  I will report back on the outcome.  (Only if successful)