For those of you who missed it - and that could easily have included me, given the brutallu early broadcast time of o8.50 - here is incontrovertible proof that 2 KCC legends were live on national TV this morning, talking about chess. And not just any old channel, but BBC1. You can't get any more mainstream national TV than that.
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| Jude, looking cool, calm and collected - despite being watched by several million people! |
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| Paul telling the country what a great game chess is. But will the country listen? It should! |
These photos were, literally, screen shots - the screen in question being our rather ancient and decidedly non-widescreen TV.
Great work by both our legends who came across as old hands at this sort of thing. Clearly the experience of getting into desperate time trouble means that handling pressure like this is a piece of cake. I can't come close to matching this sort of media exposure - the listening figures when I was interviewed in a Radio 3 documentary many years back probably struggled to reach 4 figures. And most of them were doubtless waiting for Bruckner's Second Symphony or whatever concert performance was due on next. (BTW I chose this musical work completely at random, only to discover it is called the Symphony of Pauses, which was possibly quite apt for my radio contribution!)
Anyway, guys, many congratulations on a massively confident and impressive performance - but please take on board the words from this week's song, and don't forget your old friends from before you were famous!
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