BBC world, NPR - america science, health comparison

I listened to two radio stations, the BBC world service and the NPR american radio station both on the subject of health and science. The NPR was hosted by Christopher Joyce and the subject matter was about the global warming effecting sea levels, which could rise to a maximum of 20 feet, globally. The BBC world news was hosted by Claudia Hammond and was talking about facial recognition, also called the "super-recognizers".

It was interesting to see the way that both stations had presented their material. The NPR had almost all of the interview with the scientist pre-recorded, and over the phone was also pre-recorded. I presume this was because of the correction of errors, and being a factual scientific response, the station might have preferred to keep the response as clean as possible. Whereas, the BBC had a very BBC - styled presentation, where they would have a kind of narrator which would re-direct the subject matter in different directions. I would think that having a style like this, the subject interviews would most likely have been pre-recorded.

Connection with the audience was more on a personal level in NPR than in the BBC. It sounded like NPR was telling its listeners about how the climate change affects everybody, and Chris spoke with a down-to-earth tone, with less formality in his voice. On the other hand, Claudia did a great job presenting the issue professionally and maintaining the involvement of the audience by asking the questions that the audience would want to know the answers to. Where she did not connect as much on a personal level as Chris did, she did a great job still connecting through information and interesting questions to the interview that she was conducting.

The NPR was more personal by far, and when Chris had introduced the guest announcer Rebecca, he immediately threw in a humourous line such as, "She was here for the whole interview before, she just doesn't speak much". And from there started talking about how science was similar to that of spaghetti, how the facts and evidence gathered from discoveries always change as time passes by, similar to the linear formation of spaghetti. BBC was completely formal and maintained their strict formality, where it would have been unnatural to hear any type of humour in its sessions.