The sort of behind the scenes thing you don't really need to know.
We had an interview planned for 15.00 with the Czech foreign minister. Three o'clock came and went. Another (iPM) interview planned for the same time, which we'd postponed a little, was done around 15.10.
15.20 came and went. Calls were made...still no foreign minister.
15.30.
15.40.
At 15.50, I could stand it no longer and went to the loo.
While I was in trap 5, the Czech foreign minister called in. Just as a search party was being despatched, I arrived back in the office.
The moral - and broadcasters the world over will confirm this - if you want a delayed guest to show up, just go to the loo.
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The other moral: take a mobile to the loo.
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I could stand it no longer and went to the loo.
Number one or number two?
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Nice to see that Liverpool supports Gerrard without knowing whether he is guilty.
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No webcam in there. Phew.
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But THIS, we DID need to know about...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7804571.stm
Now, I've got the Booze! Who's got the meat..?
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You got the moral wrong. In a recession, the Czech's never on time.
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3 - "all the support he needs" - what's wrong with that?
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I can vouch for this phenomenon, as the very same thing happened to me while working on The World At One only today.
I'd arranged an interview with the Mayor of an Israeli town, and had been promised she'd call back "within 30 minutes" to do it.
Those 30 minutes came and went, and another phone-call promised she'd call back within 15 minutes.
After those 15 minutes, I decided to go to the loo (curiously it was also trap 5), telling my colleagues it was the best way of ensuring she called in.
Lo and behold, I came back to a message from a colleague that the Mayor had rung in and that I needed to call her back....which I did, only to be told she wasn't available for at least another 30 minutes.
We got her in the end though.
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Marc, how typical. I expect the mayor had gone to the loo when you rang back. But being a girlie she probably had to re do her makeup, hence the 30 minutes.
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