03-12-2023, 03:11 PM
(01-12-2023, 10:49 AM)Stooky Bill Wrote: He seems to yeah, but possibly he or his colleagues through the glass wouldn't have wanted to have the entire conversation about the problem going on in his ear.Andy did like to ham it up in these kind of situations (shouting through to next door "Are we going to Neighbours early?" on one occasion when a trail fell off air), so possibly that's in the mix here.
I imagine either the potential problem with the programme was known about for the whole junction and the decision to play it was last minute once it was obvious it wouldn't be sorted... or it all went wrong very close to TX time and it was a impulse decision to go to the second programme.
There is the chance that it was just the wrong programme that was played. I don't know what VT workflow was then but they were played from the basement VT area. Go forward 20 years when I was involved in such things and each programme and clock was checked and double checked. There was no chance of accidently playing the wrong one, I can't imagine it being more lax back in those days