ABSTRACT
Poets like Wordsworth strove to give their verses rhythm, carefully choosing and arranging words to give the sound a pattern. It’s a long and noble tradition – but it has no place in broadcasting.
It is all too easy to slip into rhythms and patterns when you have a script to read. They may not be quite as easy to detect as Wordsworth’s rather obvious ti-TUM-ti-TUM-ti-TUM-ti-TUM, but, nonetheless, they may be there – and getting in the way of the story you’re trying to tell.
