Tomorrow at 2:35pm (subject to change, apparently, but between 2:00 and 4:00), I’ll be on BBC Radio Leeds doing a brief interview about Douglas Adams, and more specifically The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy. The premier of the (awful-sounding) film is tomorrow and they needed a “local expert” to talk about it. Sadly, he was busy so they had to settle for me.
You can also listen live online, so you can catch it that way if you’re foreign (i.e. anywhere outside of West Yorkshire).
It’s been years since I was on the radio (for those who didn’t know, I used to be a rock/metal DJ and a ******* fine one at that) so I’ll probably waffle a load of crap. Hang on. That’s the whole point… If you’re really nice, I’ll encode the tape they’ve said I can have and pop it up here somewhere for download.
It’s a pre-record rather than a live broadcast. By 2:00, I’ll be on the way to Norwich so we had to shift it.
Hey, can you swear on the BBC?
Can you swear on the BBC… one way to find out…
Can you swear on the BBC… **** yeah!
(since it’s a pre-record, whether they then broadcast it is unfortunately an entirely different matter)
I am intrigued as to how they ‘found’ you – or did you volunteer your services? Do you run the local Hitchhikers Guide fan club?
Well?????
he’s too important to talk to the little people now – he’ll be off hob-nobbing with Brad ‘n’ Tom ‘n’ Julia etc.
(sob)
I feel so used…
Anni: 8:34 yesterday I was at work. 8:28 today I was in bed having driving to Norwich and back directly from work…
I was contacted by the publicity bloke from ZZ9 who had in turn been contacted by the Beeb who were after people from various areas in the country. There was a list, but I think there were at least 3-4 radio interviews including 5Live, and someone else on Channel 4 News.
And I didn’t swear. Though I think I fluffed my lines a little. I await the CD they said they’d send…
Sorry to hear you made the ill-fated trip to Norwich. Another disaster…
Infamy at last….
Infamy… infamy… they’ve all got it infamy!