Fifteen minutes of fame
Ok closer to 3 minutes but we’ll take it! LOL I metioned in one of the posts about hurricane Earl that we were contacted by BBC radio in London after I made a comment to one of their news articles which asked at the end for reader contributions about preparing for the hurricane. I was quite surprised actually when they called me later that evening and asked if we would mind to go on one of the radio programmes, 5Live and speak. We got quite a kick out of the idea and agreed. They got a bit of background info and we went on. Both of us were quite nervous, well me for sure! Anyway they thanked us and asked to share any photos or videos and such. Well we tried to get a few pics and a vid or two but with all that was happening preparing for the storm we didnt have time to get anything really good or interesting. Plus we were worn out as well. Anyway after that initail radio interview I guess they passed on the fact that Alison was from the Northeast of England to their colleagues in Newcastle which is near to Sunderland and the idea of them speaking to a local girl who was in North Carolina was to their liking. So out of the blue the next morning we get another call from BBC Newcastle. The number came upo blocked on my cell so I didnt answer it thinking it was work calling and wanting me to come in on my day off! They left a voicemail and a number and since I still have a subscription on to Skype I called them back. They asked us if we would spend a few minutes to pre record an interview to air on their morning show “Alfie and Charlie at Breakfast” . We spent a little bit of time talking to a few of them there, very nice and friendly people they are! Anyway we did the interview and found out when it would be on. It aired this morning about half past 7 UK time, of course we snoozing, or trying to snooze. The wind and rain were whipping up a lot then. Wasn’t so bad as it could have been, the hurricane had weakend and was making a northeastward turn as we were going to bed so we were spared the brunt of the storm. Anyway we were back at work first thing this morning and didnt have power so we would have to wait until we returned to try and hear it. As it turned out I was only at work about an hour when my cell rang and it showed “blocked” ! Well I answered it and it was BBC Newcastle again saying the interview was picked up by the BBC London and broadcast all over! Being at work I didnt have a lot of time to talk but they said they want to do another one on how we made out and all. So they are supposed to get back with us to set a time for it. As for the interview we prerecorded it wasn’t until we got back home that we had a listen to it and I was able to record it.
OK without further ado, here we are!
Our (Alison’s) interview on the BBC
Hey Chester, nice interview, and I hope you are doing well!
If anyone wants to listen in a better audio quality, here’s the URL of the entire show, skip to around 0:55:00 to hear the interview:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/console/p009nt46
Greetings from Europe! :)
Hi Michal! And Greetings from the US! :)
Yes doing very well here. Hope you are doing well too. So very nice to hear from you. Thanks for posting. Yes its much better audio from the site itself, I couldn’t figure out how to grab the audio other than with windows sound recorder which isnt the best really, but anyway it works :)
I was thinking about you and Jan last week as its slowing down and this years students at Food Lion are prepapring to leave the next week or two, Miss you guys, maybe next time we are in Cyprus we can arrange a meet somewhere, or in a few years when we’re retired there we can get together again!
Thanks again for posting, keep in touch my friend