I was lucky enough to be invited to a special behind the scenes tour (or a ‘behind the, behind the scenes tour
) of the new BBC Broadcasting House last week, and while some of my fellow attendees were in awe of the various celebrity newscasters and weathergirls that could be seen around the building, the highlight of the visit for me was being shown the rack of hard disks containing the music collection for the BBC’s radio stations…GkF (Geek Factor) of 3 methinks?
Sooo… the conversation when I got back went a little like this:
“So did you see Huw Edwards?” “Umm… nope. But I saw inside some of the sound studios! Went down to the basement to look at all the communications equipment sending audio and tv signals all over the world! Had a walk around the perimeter of the news floor (if you were watching the BBC News at around 10.30am on Thursday 11th April you may have seen us in the background) with the 'virtual reality' studios, AND saw the racks of hard disks that hold the music files for the radio stations…” <me = big beaming smile like an excited child..>
“So you didn’t see Sophie Rayworth? Fiona Bruce? Bill Turnbull?”
“Nope, too busy looking at the array of buttons and switches and trying desperately to resist the temptation to press one…”
“You’re such a geek…”
