Just took my Richard Brautigan anthology off the shelf and it looks like I haven’t read it in a while.
The bookmark is one of the strips of paper BBC World Service studio managers used to write their shifts down on.
On this day I did shift A4 which consisted of the following:
- 1700-1730 Thai PO Box recording in S14
- 1730 in S35 for a Somali transmission, on air at 1800. Jonathan Haine was panelling
- 1930 in C33 for a Ukranian transmission on air at 2000. Tania Garner was the panel SM.
- 2045-2315 in the Newsroom. So, no change there, then.
On the back of the sheet I had written the words ‘Surplus Affection’. Mmm.
I loved it that we always had pads printed with that ridiculous grid on one side, but everyone just scribbled on the reverse instead.
Yes, that’s what I did! Apparently I used the grid for writing angsty things about love.