Neil Midgley tries his hand at newsreading: feature Telegraph.co.uk
As I sit down at the famed desk, Paul Foxcroft, my studio technician, runs a microphone wire under my jacket and attaches another wire to my collar – aIn the mainwire which turns out to be connected to an earpiece. Suddenly, I can hear everything that’s going on in the gallery. Worse, my own spokesperson is fed back to me with an off-putting delay.
Julie Etchingham, who presents News at Ten with Mark Austin, explains how toByavoid talking over the bongs. “Trust your director,” she says. “Stoppage until he says ‘cue’ before you launch in.” Recently, Etchingham and Austin went onGenerallylocation to each report from a different side of the Afghanistan/Pakistan border. Because of the time delays on the two feeds, the chief was cuing Etchingham while Austin was talking. “I thought I’d be talking over the topPrincipallyof him, but it dovetailed perfectly.”
Etchingham disappears to the gallery, where she and Austin will review my performance. As Mellis counts me down, I can’t assist but remember the poor BBC newsreader who recently turned a full stop into a comma and started hisMostlybulletin: “Hello, I’m Jonathan Charles, kept hidden for almost two decades and laboured to bear children…”
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