[Orry Verducci]

I’ve yet to see the documentary, but if it’s right Dermot Murnaghan is claiming he got to Buckingham Palace first and so got the best spot, that’s a little bit cheeky.

So Dermot might have ensured Sky got their spot, which would have been one of the best, but if he’d have gone in the wrong place he’d soon have been moved, as would anyone taking Sky’s spot!

Yes he said he was walking to work, which goes past Buckingham Palace, at the time he got the call. So was only a minute or two away.

Given that he was in a public space, and this was before anything official had been setup, would they have been able to ask him to move? Obviously Sky wouldn't want to upset the Palace and would I'm sure comply with any requests, but I imagine he would have also been within his right to say "why should I" if asked to move.

In the documentary I think both Dan Walker and Dermot Murnagham said that they knew the news was coming before the Palace announced it at 18:30

So I was in playout on this day supporting our (understandably) nervous TX operator. We weren't a broadcaster who was privy to the protocol, but between us we had a couple friends who work within BBC News who unofficially kept us in the loop. We were also talking to ITV's schedulers, as we were scheduled to be on ITV1 that night, who had speculated that might change.

I was always on the understanding they like to do these announcements at two hourly intervals (e.g. 2pm, 4pm, 6pm, etc). We were told that although they hadn't been told officially, the word on the ground was that there would be news at 6pm, which sounded right to me based on my understanding of the protocol.

6pm came and went. I hung around in playout until 6:20pm, watching BBC News and Sky News on the multiviewer, and at that point declared to my colleague that "it's clearly not happening" and that "we won't hear anything until 8pm", so I was going to go home.

By the time I had got to the car the news had been announced, and as I put my key in the car radio came on to a very upset Andrew Marr on LBC much to my surprise. Thanks to that I have the surreal memory of running back in to the building and up to the top floor (where playout was located), with the national anthem blaring out around me as I did so (every TV around the building had been switched to BBC News). Not one I'll forget.