Tuesday morning I did a radio interview with BBC via my cell phone. The thing was arranged the night before by a guy in London, telling me his colleague in LA would be doing the interview.
At 9am today my phone rang and someone from the studio asked me if I could hear the show, which was going on in the background. Some terrorist expert was going on about how terror groups operate and I was on next. The presenter and I had never talked but he was prepped as to who I was. He switched into 'how has this event affected the tourist industry?' and asked me to talk about what happened that night, and if I feel my blogging is affecting a wider audience than before.
Starting out a little nervous, I tried to answer the questions and part way through my phone started beeping (out of power). My phone is a piece of junk and although it was charging all night ran out of juice in about 2 minutes. Running to the bedroom and fumbling for my power chord, I tried to keep the dialogue going, I must have sounded like a stuttering idiot, but I stayed on air.
The point I made was that the media makes situations like this latest bombing seem like the end of the world. It's serious for sure and I understand how relatives of the victims feel. But Bali is not Beirut or Baghdad and if you listen to main stream media that is how it sometimes comes across.
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Any idea what show or BBC station that went out on?
Mark,
Yeah it was funny. I hope my mouth kept moving (er, um, er, yeah, well, Bali…) rather that communicating what was going through my mind (where’s the f*****g power chord!!!).
Chris it was BBC Live at Five, or something like that.
If it was Five Live, that’s the BBC’s main news and sport station, not bad.
You’re a world wide celebrity now Nick! Don’t worry, I’m sure you did well.
Isn’t that always the case? Technology always seems to suffer some sort of failure right at the point where you need it most.
Just like when your laptop dies or the projector won’t come on, just when you have Powerpoint presentation to do infront of 300 people who would rather be somewhere else.
Here’s a link for the interview, might only play in the UK, not shure. Fast forward to 01:14
Great blog Nick been reading it since we visited Bali in March 04.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/networks/fivelive/aod.shtml?fivelive/uan1_tue
Nick you made my day mate……i was sitting there in stitches when i read about you and your phone and you sounding like some bumbling stuttering fool as you tried to do the interview.
Classic stuff Nick and the ironic thing is that 99/5 of the time you would be up to carry on a perfectly good interview and then when you get the big chance with the BBC …..ZAAAAP the F***** phone starts playing up………classic hee heee….Sorry Nick but you have gotta admit it is funny when you look back.
Thanks for the moment Nick