by Nadine Dereza | Oct 27, 2014 | Live Events, Presenting, Tips and Ideas
Monica Lewinsky’s speech to the Forbes Under 30 Conference this week coincided with a trip by Ian Hawkins, one of the PS Programmes team to New York City. Lewinsky, even today, is something of an enigma. A public figure – who hasn’t spoken in public for over a...
by Nadine Dereza | Oct 12, 2014 | Live Events, Presenting, Tips and Ideas
This serious-minded and business-oriented blog may be your first port of call for thoughtful discourse on the current trends in communications and public affairs, but that doesn’t mean we don’t know how to let our hair down, and this week, we had a great...
by Nadine Dereza | Sep 25, 2014 | Live Events, Presenting, Tips and Ideas
By a strange coincidence, the leader of the Labour Party, Ed Miliband faced the nightmare that according to our recent survey, most terrifies people: he forgot a key part of his speech. Normally forgetting your words isn’t a big deal, we tell clients. Only the...
by Nadine Dereza | Aug 15, 2014 | Live Events, Presenting, Tips and Ideas
‘Public opinion is no more than this: what people think that other people think.’ Alfred Austin, Poet Laureate. Surveys – be they on issues of vital importance or profound triviality – are a seemingly endless source of intrigue: are you in or...
by Nadine Dereza | Jul 31, 2014 | Presenting
Politics, the old joke goes, is showbusiness for ugly people. But that joke might be on the way out: if you have a great face for local radio, that might no longer be enough if you aspire to hold public office. Our mothers always told us to sit up straight and smile...
by Nadine Dereza | Jun 20, 2014 | Live Events, Presenting, Tips and Ideas
“That was only a yard away from being an inch-perfect pass.” Murdo MacLeod It’s the World Cup, and at PS Programmes Towers we are very excited by the drama and spectacle of the Beautiful Game. We don’t expect everyone to share our passion, but...