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My working day started at 7am with a call from ITN. After last night’s train debacle I could have done with a lie in, but that didn’t stop my phone chirp chirp chirping and waking me up. I didn’t get the name of the guy on the other end. He was some newsreader or other, wanting an interview in five minutes time. I bought myself ten and crawled out of bed then stood for a while, waiting for the call on the ISDN as my head slowly cleared.

I thought it went pretty well, considering I was sitting there naked, half asleep and poorly prepared. It went out on the hour every hour, I think, and although I wasn’t particularly listening out for it I did come across it by chance on a lunchtime bulletin. I’d spent the morning listening to Island FM all the way over in Guernsey, and hadn’t expected they’d be using it but there I was, blathering away, sounding rather tired.

Anyhow, it can’t have been so bad - LBC heard it and called while we were all out having a team-wide pizza-guzzling lunch, and called again when we got back to the office. ‘Can you do us a piece on it in ten minutes?’ they asked, and I readily agreed - I knew the story already, and was eager to prove that I could sound awake today after all.

They used it on Nightly News this evening.

About the time it was scheduled for going out, I was walking home, checking the voicemails on my mobile.

‘Hi Nik,’ spoke the voice on the first one. ‘It’s [Channel] Five [TV] news here. Just wondering if you could do a quick interview for us. Call me. Ciao.’

Almost eight hours late, I called him back. We agreed to postpone til tomorrow.

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