What’s in a Name?
One of my favourite things about Sidepodcast is the fact that despite broadcasting for over a year, very few people know my real name.
Originally when this all started, I didn’t want to be credited on the show because I was conscious not to steal Christine’s limelight. You wouldn’t know it now, but there was once a time when the lady was a very shy and timid person, so I tried to give her as big a platform as I could.
Nowadays of course this is all academic, as Christine’s more than capable of holding her own alongside myself or anyone else. However the ‘anonymous podcaster’ thing has stuck and now creates all manner of discussion on this site and elsewhere. As I said in a comment earlier, it’s a ‘conversation starter’, in much the same way that the quest to discover who The Stig from Top Gear is.
The problem of course is that while online anonymity is relatively easy, in the real world, it’s a tough gig to keep up. Because of this there are many people involved in F1 who know my name, and inevitably the more widespread the knowledge, the harder it is to contain. Eventually someone will mention it.
