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We've not had to think far back to get
some anecdotes from this decade! Here's what this generation of 麻豆社 staff
have to say...
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One of the joys of working on Reporting
Scotland is the diversity of stories. A few years ago I found myself presenting
the programme from the White House and at the Oscars within the space
of a couple of months. Of course our destinations aren't usually so glamorous
- although they're never boring. Problems with our makeshift studio on
Orkney necessitated that I presented the programme perched on top of a
large box; we commemorated the opening of the Scottish Parliament with
a special programme from inside a tiny, swaying Portacabin on stilts in
Princes Street gardens; swooping over the newly opened Skye Bridge on
helicopter was an exhilarating experience and, fairly recently, being
part of an airport welcoming party for our victorious but bemused Olympic
curlers was an absolute joy.
Jackie Bird
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Best memory of Radio Scotland? A Mercury
Rev session we recorded at Cava studios for Soundcheck. The band were
so impressed by the studio, they got the whole team down and recorded
such a good session they went on to use one of the tracks as a b-side.
Best memory of Radio1? Idlewild live broadcast from Shetland. That place
is out of this world. The band rocked, the people were amazing and the
show sounded tremendous.
Gill Mills, Radio 1
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My personal high has got to be the making
of Castaway 2000. It was a hugely ambitious project designed to mark the
Millennium, more 'real' and dangerous than any subsequent so-called 'reality
show', and getting it on air for January 2000 was a truly exciting adventure.
We were building and creating a community as well as making documentaries.
Keeping it on air subsequently was just as demanding, as rows broke out,
a press frenzy developed, individuals fled the island, and the weather
became a character in its own right. My regret?...we never got the scheduling
right, and the arrival of the first Big Brother that summer left us for
dead...but hey - scheduling, the opposition - the perennial excuses of
all TV producers: it was still the bravest and most innovative of them
all.
Colin
Cameron, Controller Network Development, 麻豆社 Nations and Regions
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I remember being surprised when Geri Halliwell
came up here to record Live and Kicking, she had to have her porridge
to wake her up!
During filming of The Live Floor Show, we had various
tour managers, who look after Starsailor, Beverley Knight, Super Furry
Animals, The Prodigy and The Verve (basically all the cool bands). These
guys never get starstruck, but when they came up to 麻豆社 Scotland and realised
we film Balamory, they spent the entire day trying to track down the cast
to get autographs for their kids.
Liz Wilson, Music Associate
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Mis-Teeq have met every famous person
under the sun, but Sabrina and Aleshia were starstruck by 13-year-old
Brookside actor, Raymond Quinn, who won the award for Best Actor at the
TV Awards, beating Martin Kemp. They swooned all over him during Live
and Kicking.
Miles Goodwin, Celebrity Booker
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A fond memory is that of 'Flying Without
Wings' for Children In Need. It was great fun doing it and given that
I'm decidedly a jeans and T-shirt kinda guy, the chance to put on some
trendy clobber was great. Watching the transformation during make-up was
something to behold - although I'm not sure that I want to repeat the
mascara experience again! The funniest thing was
that Jim Delahunt looked no different from his appearances on Scotsport
- the STV make-up ladies must love him. Watching Archie McPherson trying
to decide on which hairstyle to go with was also fun. I do a bit of am-dram,
so I wasn't that put out by taking on a different persona for the cameras,
but I was amazed at the outcome - we all looked so into it ... and it
was of course for a good cause. I got more reaction to that 60 seconds
on air than to anything else I've done in my career - the phone hardly
stopped ringing in the couple of hours following its airing.
Richard Gordon
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Having started off at 麻豆社 Scotland in
1998 doing paperwork for Mr Anderson's Fine Tunes, I found myself in a
scarily responsible position just four years later. Over the Music Live/Jubilee
weekend, I flew to Shetland to film Scottish rockers, Idlewild, for the
Radio 1 website. Up until then the most exciting outside broadcast I'd
been on was piping in Peebles so this was a real coup. Being the only
Onliner among twenty-odd Radio 1 staff, I was stressed to the hilt but
the gig was fantastic and it was really exhilarating. Shetland hospitality
meant it was a very late night but I survived long enough to make it to
Ullapool three nights later to film another gig for Radio Scotland's Air.
I'm now trying to figure out how I can unchain myself from my PC again
to chase more pop stars with my camera...
Julie Broadfoot, Assistant Producer, Interactive
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I had to pinch myself to make sure I wasn聮t
dreaming when I found myself standing in the same room as Tom Conti, Greg
Proops and Dyan Cannon on Oscar night last year. A colleague and myself
had gone to LA to produce the interactive vote for Jonathan Ross聮
live broadcast from the Academy Awards. It was a great feeling when the
votes and emails started to pour in from the public聟 and I was thrilled
that all our hard work had paid off when Jonathan Ross read out the results
of the People聮s Vote live on air. The buzz in Hollywood on Oscar
night is incredible and it聮s an experience I聮ll never forget!
Kirstie Lamont
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I've lots of memories about 麻豆社 Scotland
but perhaps the one that best springs to mind is the period when I was
living down under in Australia in 1999/2000. The excellent online streaming
of the SPL fixtures enabled me to keep up to date with the progress of
my favourites, the mighty Hibees - for once having a good season, whilst
living in the land of rugby, Aussie rules and worst of all... cricket.
On many Saturday nights after coming home from a night out in the city
I'd log onto the website to catch the match live from Easter Road. Being
able to access the sound really made a difference to just watching text
updates, you actually feel like part of the action. So even when living
10,000 miles away 麻豆社 Scotland remained an integral part of my weekend!
Those midweek fixtures were an absolute killer though!
John Marshall, Corporate Accounting Manager, 麻豆社 Scotland
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I remember having a
few surreal moments whilst working on Bits and Bobs. Having to phone Buckingham
Palace and ask if we could film Trug (the remote control star of the programme)
coming through their gates looking like he'd just had tea with the Queen.
They called back and left a very polite message saying that it was not
something one normally allowed. It was only three days after September
11th so I kinda understood! Whilst filming in South Africa I also telephoned
Nelson Mandela聮s PR people to ask if we could film him with Trug,
again a very nice reply saying that he had a full schedule! Other highlights
and weird moments were taking Trug on the Millenium Wheel, on a speedboat,
seeing him in a tutu and filming him with an American Football team.
Jacqui Scott
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