Boyer Lectures

This week I'm recording the Boyer Lectures, which are are an annual series of lectures given by a prominent Australian.  It's a major event on the Radio National calendar.  This year's guest lecturer is General Peter Cosgrove, the former chief of the Australian defence force.

He's a rather friendly chap.  So far we've recorded 4 of the 6 lectures.  I really liked what he had to say on leadership in his 3rd lecture.  Despite swallowing his words a lot like all good Aussies do, he does a pretty good job in the studio, for someone who is not a professional voice artist.  He can hear when he gets the emphasis of a sentence wrong, or stuffs something up, so we don't have to keep stopping him to make him do it again, he just stops himself and does it again.  The editing shouldn't be too hard.

Not like last year.  I had to edit Rupert Murdoch.  I spent days and days editing out all of his saliva noises and replacing horrible breaths.  He really did sound terrible before I got to him.