The outside broadcast truck was parked in the hospital car park. It took the technical guys a while to find the right position to get an uninterrupted uplink path to the satellite but finally we were getting a good signal. We have four cameras: three will be set up in the wards with the fourth one in the hospital kitchen in the basement. Ledley was already down there preparing the ingredients for his cooking demonstration. He was going to make Jamaican patties and a cake for the patients. Fizzy arrived ten minutes ago and we go to air at eight a.m.
There is such a heightened atmosphere to an outside broadcast. It’s unlike any other kind of programme-making and what makes it work is when the whole team pull together as one. Simon and Molly arrived and I put them in charge of lining up the patients for Fizzy to talk to as we move through the wards. Ziggy arrived ten minutes later and she would be the on-site runner and would do the fetching and carrying. All three had taken my advice and were wearing trainers as they will have to move fast around the hospital which has miles of corridors; we have all been issued with a map of the hospital layout.
