Can I tell you about this? I’m particularly pleased with a feature I’ve just had published in Radio Times. It’s the issue that came out today, covering 1-7 April, and with the Coronation Street cast on the front.<\/p>\n
Which reminds me: that cover’s got RT a lot of attention today and RadioTimes.com has a video of the cover photography shoot. I’ve only been to a couple of shoots for anyone, just a single time for RT, so I find that video fascinating. If you’ve been to a million, your mileage may vary.<\/p>\n
But could we get back to me? On page 27 there’s a piece about BBC4’s 1973 week. The week’s pegged around a repeat run of the drama Life on Mars and BBC4’s done quite brilliantly to cover every angle of this year.<\/p>\n
My job was to research a) 1973 and b) BBC4’s plans.\u00a0 The former was easy enough, the latter harder because – as I understand it – plans and schedules were being negotiated for quite a time so in theory anything could drop out or be added.<\/p>\n
I had a really good time doing this. But I’d been warned that the feature would be primarily a photographic one; in the initial stage I purely delivered a list of items I recommended we get pictures for. (Did you know the Toy of the Year 1973 was the Mastermind board game? Nor did I, but I do now.)<\/p>\n
Later it was changed and I was asked to provide effectively picture captions for a sequence of these shots. I wrote the amount I was asked for but with the expectation that it would be cut down to fit the room left on the page.<\/p>\n
It was. But hardly anything was cut at all, I’m amazed how much the production desk squeezed onto this page.\u00a0<\/p>\n
That’s it. I think the piece is funny, though if it is it’s because BBC4’s schedule is well done and the subs desk at RT added a nice gag for me. But I wanted to tell you while the issue was on sale.<\/p>\n
And hang on, I’m in the issue for my usual seven On This Day pieces plus the TV Stat short so this week I get nine bylines in Radio Times. Blimey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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