"Tales from a very minor celebrity"
“Tales from a very minor celebrity” is the story of how I overcame my acute shyness and went on to have a 35 year career in broadcasting both in the UK and in Spain.
You’ll hear some of my most memorable celebrity interviews and all the adventures I’ve had both in the UK and Spain and the stories behind them…like the time I delivered half a carcass of beef to Margaret Thatcher at 10 Downing Street!
“Tales from a very minor celebrity”, a weekly podcast from me Simon Baldock.
"Tales from a very minor celebrity"
‘Pick of the week’ Fatima Whitbread / Carol Smillie
Now this week you’re going to hear two very different interviews from my archive, one serious and one very frivolous …the first is with champion javelin thrower Fatima Whitbread and the second with Carol Smillie, the former presenter of Changing Rooms the series which paved the way for a plethora of home improvement programmes.
First though Fatima Whitbread who spoke to me, not about athletics, but adoption, something very close to her heart as she was adopted when she was a teenager.
The interview is also notable because it was featured on Pick Of The Week, the long-running radio 4 programme which features extracts from BBC radio programmes broadcast over the previous seven days and which are drawn from all of the BBC's local and national radio networks, as well as the BBC World Service, so to have one of your interviews to be chosen is quite a big thing.
