From the
sublime to the
ridiculous and nobody wants to look ridiculous is an apt comment in the situation one found oneself in ones career in broadcasting with the BBC.
I have often been a fierce critic of the BBC especially on issues of religion, gender and
age and wrote to it about the exclusion of many Catholics including myself on the air in Ireland especially in the North. Nobody paid much attention to my ceaseless letter writing but one day I did get an invitation to a BBC
Studio to do a bit of light broadcasting for the city of Belfast in Northern Ireland. I was so relieved to do it that I paid little attention to the location or the general set up I was employed to work in. And put it down to the fact that the BBC as a media communications system in the UK was years behind Europe where I had work and encountered the Euro TV Camera with zoom lens on the streets of Istanbul .. all very flashy
stuff in comparison to the dingy two room studio of the BBC in East Belfast all those years ago .. I started from humble
beginnings.
Later I was to be invited by the Poetry Society to very smart location in London with a really de luxe luxurious studio .. and it took me back to my humble beginnings story .. thus the line..... from the sublime to the ridiculous ... finally I may have started off
looking ridiculous but I finished looking positively /sublime/ excellent stuff ..
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