It’s all in the voice.
It’s all in the voice. Some presenters have it. Others just don’t quite draw you in; the voice is too abrasive, too knowing. Edward Stourton definitely has it. A quiet authority, a questing intelligence, but more than that a willingness to share, to enter into a conversation with those whom he hopes will be listening. On Tuesday he took us to Iraq, and to yet another unforeseen consequence of the 2003 invasion.
The Archbishop of Canterbury had already touched upon this in Easter Monday’s controversial edition of Start the Week from Lambeth Palace, when he began by reminding us that many Christians in the world are experiencing a throwback to the perilous conditions of the first and second centuries AD. Locked doors, Jesus’s resurrection appearances in secret rooms…these are suddenly no longer abstract ideas, says the Archbishop, in places such as Baghdad where Christians are being persecuted for their faith just like the early disciples.
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