Robert Peston

[BertiWooster]

With the credit crunch so topical at the amount , Mr Peston the BBC's business editor pops up quite regularly on the News and current affairs programmes .

Isn't it really irritating , the way he speaks - drawing out his sentences ( for want of a better description )

Does he have this effect on anyone else on here - should the BBC make available to him, a speaking coach ?

[THECORBYLOON]

When he's live, he does ma head in, he takes five minutes to say what others can do in thirty seconds. You can hear the frustration in the interviewers' voices when they try to hurry him up and I notice it only when he's on. He sounds as if he's reading from notes written in Braille but he's not too sure what they say.

[jno]

he was originally in the newspaper trade so probably hasn't had much training in appearing before a camera. He is a very good reporter, however. He was the first to report the Northern Rock calamity and his blogs on the BBC website are lucid even if his speaking is not..

[Quizmonster]

I'm convinced he is determined to get as much air-time as he can...perhaps he's paid by the minute! Hence such sentences as "The Bank of England has decided to, to, to, to, to, to support mortgage lenders" or "The money will come fr-o-o-o-o-o-o-m a consolidated fund."

(I wouldn't make such comments if I felt he had a genuine speech impediment, of course, but I don't believe he has. Perhaps someone has evidence to the contrary?)

[THECORBYLOON]

Ma heart sinks when I hear his name mentioned on the
To-day programme, he definitely needs some coaching to improve his delivery. When he's doing a pre-recorded report, he still puts his emphasis in odd places but he is a hundred times better than when he is "live." .

[buildersmate]

I find him incredibly irritating in style and am genuinely surprised he has lasted so long.
His style is more suited to telling the story of Little Red Riding Hood and the Big Bad Wolf.

[Famous5]

Irritable Vowel Syndrome?