[Tech1] Bettany Hughes programme audio

[Mike Jordan]

Hi folks – a query from a mere OB Comms person!

I have been watching with interest her recent series about all sorts of middle eastern places.
I was continuously amazed with the audio quality of her speech absolutely everywhere.
No sign of a radio mic and using a boom or rifle must have been impossible at some locations in the middle of nowhere or surrounded by people and street noises.
How on earth did they mic it?

She is a great person, I once had to do an interview at her house here in Ealing for a local pressure group meeting. Of course she was instantly understanding of the technicalities and we did it all OK with a carefully re-positioned couple of desk lamps. I wonder if I ever kept a copy? Must look.

My pre-BBC experiences ran to doing the PA for all sorts of events at school, stage fx, editing video and audio for a school copy version of”IF” movie on 16mm/tape and best of all recording Paul Simon LIVE for our folk club. And not forgetting house Christmas stage party show lit with light bulbs in the base of 7lb marmalade tins from the canteen rubbish tip!
All good fun and good experience. As I always say, mending the 16mm film for projecting to the school with liquid film cement was a truly enticing smell and made one quite “happy”

Mike
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