No time to relax
So many radio stations wanted to talk about the Hampton Court Palace Flower Show on Tuesday that I picked up one of our microphones to talk to ´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio Solent's Adam Blackmore in the morning and didn't put it down until we'd finished with Charlie Crocker in the afternoon. ´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio Solent is a station close to my heart - when I'm not at a flower show, I produce The Good Life - a gardening show every Sunday at 12pm with Georgie Windsor - so I enjoyed chatting to Adam and Charlie. James Stewart, Editor-turned-Reporter for show week, was kept busy too - he spoke to Fred Marden, Gordon Astley and Chris Warburton on ´óÏó´«Ã½ Southern Counties Radio as well as ´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio Oxford's Louisa Hannan and Luke Deal at ´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio Suffolk.
Now that the show is open it takes much longer to get from one side of the site to the other and having been here since Saturday I've been used to having it pretty much to myself (not counting the exhibitors or RHS staff, of course) so it feels really busy now. We use a piece of kit we call a backpack to talk to all the different local radio stations but it's actually a belt with a battery pack, a microphone and a pair of headphones with a 12" aerial on the side - we get some pretty strange looks, I can tell you. The backpack means we can broadcast live from anywhere around the showground so local radio stations can talk to exhibitors from their gardens.
On medals day all the ´óÏó´«Ã½ local radio stations want to know how their own local exhibitors have got on so it was an early start for us. Bob Sweet, RHS Shows Director, has the low-down on who's been awarded the coveted medals, as well as the highly prized Best in Show and he spoke to many of them from the Floral Marquee.
Another visitor on Tuesday was Sue Dougan from ´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio Cambridgeshire. Sue came along with her producer, Heather Noble and the show's gardening expert, Peter Jackson, to present the afternoon show. She particularly enjoyed talking the Richard Reynolds a.k.a The Guerilla Gardener. Richard and his team turned up at the and used everyone's left overs to build his show garden.
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