Reply To: Three In a Bed

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I thought Beattie did rather well, but then perhaps I am a little biased!

Story going round says that transmission was delayed because of Jeremy Clarkson. The idea is that when he dropped out of the Beeb schedules there were some rapid changes among the ITVs to try and grab his audience and we got sort of left out some how. Stranger things have been known (but perhaps not much stranger).

Also the real reason Beattie was hovering over the “lone male” was that he had announced he had a phobia about sewing machines having got a needle in his finger more than once in the past. We were determined that was not going to happen this time. He actually did alright on the day. I think the hand cranks were more manageable. I was suspicious of a “setup” and was hovering close but out of shot (more or less) until they had finished.

We had a bit of trouble with the producer who wanted to make some sort of competition among the baggers. We were not keen as the ethos of Morsbags is that everyone wins. In view of this I think we were edited pretty fairly.