I had an appointment at 2:30pm at the BBC. I almost dressed up, but then realized we are talking about radio after all. Good thing I didn’t because they were all casual like I expected.

The BBC building was quite intimidating. It was built in the 20′s by an American architect named Irving. There are roughly 2,000 people that work there. Peter tagged along and we joined a lady by the name of Kelly Shepard who is the managing editor of BBC World Service Future Media. She gave us the breakdown and then we met the editors, the design team, and the programmers and operations people. It was very informative and nice to know they have the same issues we have at CBS radio.

The next stop was with Bill Reis in the news division. He took us in to watch a live broadcast of the 3pm news and like all good news shows, nothing went right, but we got to see the chaos behind the perfect broadcast on-air.

We stopped by Robbie’s studio and then visited a medieval church across the street. It was spooky….something right out of a horror movie. In fact the church is recorded in the Doomsday book in (1086). The church was a gift to someone in the year of 940….damn that’s old. I have included a few pics.

We stuffed ourselves at dinner and then went back to the flat to watch Robbie try and walk his cat on a leash. Tonight, or rather tomorrow at 4am we leave for Brussels. London was a blast and Robbie and Elisa were awesome. I’m trying to talk them into visiting us in Seattle.

I don’t think we will be sleeping tonight….hahhahah.

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