Monday 12th May
Fife
The policemen guarding the
home of Gordon Brown the ex-prime minister let us in to his drive to start
getting set up in the garden to do a down the line interview with him about the
situation of school girls kidnapped in Nigeria.
We worked as quietly as we
could, given that the Brown family were still in the land of nod.
Callum, one of the
workers in the constituency office came to look after us before his boss woke
up, not that there was anything he could do really.
A little while before the
time of the interview the man himself came out the kitchen door and asked if we
wanted coffees. He took our order and went back in to make them for us.
We drank the coffee, as we
got ready to do the short interview.
His large but, but not grand
house in Fife has a fantastic view south over the river Forth towards
Edinburgh. When I commented on the view he agreed and said why pay a fortune to
be in the city when only a short drive away you could pay a lot less and have a
view like that.
When Doug the technical director
spoke to him over talkback to check that everything was as it should be he
found it pleasing to hear another Scottish voice.
A couple of minutes later
the interview started.
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| Doing the live down the line interview into GMB |
When it was done he offered
us another cup of coffee, which we declined, preferring to get packed up and
away.
He said good-bye going in to
get involved in the family ritual of getting the kids ready for school.
Tuesday 13th May
Claudia Lawrence had gone
missing 5 years ago. Her body has never been found.
Michael Snelling had been
arrested in connection with her murder.
I met Gamal, the GMB Correspondent based in Manchester and Rick, the ITV
Yorkshire engineer outside the rather suspect looking house in York to tell the
story.
It was already warm and the
sun was shining. I was looking forward to a morning of doing bog standard easy stress
free stand-upper live broadcasts.
The first thing to disabuse
me of that was a problem with the cable between the truck and the camera.
We needed to use the radio
link, which gave audio problems.
So rather than bask in the
early morning sun in between broadcasts I ran around trying various bits of
cable to try and get the broadcasts better. Eventually it came good.
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| The house does not look the nicest of places |
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| Gamal in broadcast position |
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