A Bit Of a Chat with Ken Plume & Doug Naylor

[Stephen R. Fletcher]

I found this today. I don’t think I’ve seen it posted here before –

http://asitecalledfred.com/2013/01/21/doug-naylor-ken-plume-chat/

A really good interview IMO. I particularly enjoyed the story about Richard Naylor and fonts.

[NitroChrisUK]

What a coincidence! was listening to this as you posted it! interesting that Ken was so sure it was Nano Rimmer in X, Doug’s response makes me think it was not, combined with his comments on the back to earth Commentary. and i would like to see the Non “Disney” version of the X documentary.

[Alex]

It’s been up for a while, but it has some interesting bits and pieces in there. It’s just a shame that Ken Plume is so bloody irritating.

[genericnerdyusername]

He does spend an inordinate amount of time laughing, yes, more often than not at his own jokes. All the podcasts I’ve heard I’ve found interesting enough, though.

[pfm]

There’s a ton of brilliant info from Doug here. It’s great to hear so much positivity regarding a potential XI. I just really really hope production runs a heck of a lot smoother than on X. Though, saying that, wouldn’t that make for a less-interesting doco? :P

[Jonsmad]

Photo stealers. :-)

[Andrew Moir]

Just listened. There is some great stuff in there and I could listen to Doug talk for hours. However, for me a really great interview should never involve an interviewer interrupting or talking over the guest especially with piss poor asides, but maybe I’m just a harsh judgmental internet bastard.

[Stephen R. Fletcher]

However, for me a really great interview should never involve an interviewer interrupting or talking over the guest especially with piss poor asides, but maybe I’m just a harsh judgmental internet bastard.

I completely agree, Andrew (Not that you’re a harsh judgmental internet bastard, I meant the other thing). Bit of a different example since it’s not exactly an interview, but one of the most recent episodes of a podcast called ‘Sofa dogs Podcast’ had Whedonverse writer Tim Minear returning to do a commentary on one of the episodes of ‘Angel’ that he wrote and directed (It happened to be Darla – which was also his Directorial Debut).

Throughout a lot of it, the host kept interrupting Tim during most of the anecdotes and behind the scenes info he was about to say. It got to the point where it was so bloody annoying hearing him trying to be witty when almost constantly stopping Tim from talking (I think even he was beginning to get irritated by it). I really wanted to just hear more from the guy who actually worked on the episode.

I actually thought Ken Plume seemed less annoying compared to that guy but I can see what you mean and I do agree that a really great interview should allow space for the guest to talk.

[Phil]

“However, for me a really great interview should never involve an interviewer interrupting or talking over the guest especially with piss poor asides”

Precisely the reason I can’t listen to the WTF Podcast, which is a shame because Maron gets interesting people to talk about interesting things. Which the then decides to interrupt. Hugely frustrating when this happens…I don’t know when interviewers suddenly decided they should outshine their subjects, but it’s a trend I don’t enjoy.

[Taiwan Tony]

I only just listened to this.
It was a good interview, cheers for posting. I couldn’t be bothered to listen to the Duke of Manchester story again so I think I missed the thing about the fonts. But I heard the bit about Richard.
It ended quite abruptly didn’t it – as if Doug was a bit pissed off. Or he did just have a meeting.
Doug mentioned he had loads of story ideas (I think it might have been 20 or 30). So I’m hoping the ideas too expensive to produce might make a new book. That’d be nice.

[Ridley]

We like A Bit Of A Chat, don’t we?

[HelloMabel]

I wonder if Neil Innes knows Ken Plume is using one of his songs as his theme tune.

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