It’s a week after the event now, and I’m still torn between shaking my head in despair and smiling wryly about my Easter Monday morning appearance on BBC Radio Manchester. Having sent out a ton of press releases, I’d erm, completely forgotten about the existence of radio Manchester so when they got in touch out of the blue to say they’d heard about me and would I come on the Darryl Morris show for a chat the thing I was most excited about was getting to have a nosey around inside Media City: the new North West home of various BBC departments (sport, radio five live, childrens TV, BBC breakfast and others).
I realise that I’m going to have some way to go to convert everyone to my cause here, and was feeling a little anxious at Darryl’s build-up… ‘ coming up we have a woman who could be wearing YOUR CLOTHES soon, so watch your backs.’ Er, OK. I was heralded in to the rousing strains of Labi Siffre lite (local radio, folks). Looking forward to a rousing chat about my safari and why I’m doing it, and all of the reasons that secondhand shopping is so wonderful. What would his first question be?
‘So, are you going to smell?’
The tone was set. What Greater Manchester doesn’t now know about my bra and knickers following his probing questioning about those items is not worth knowing about.
All in all, it actually went pretty well, or so I’ve been told and I used the faintly bemused interviewer as a sounding board to talk about what I’ll be up to and why. I don’t mean to sound ungrateful… I’m thankful for each and every way that I can get the word out about this. In a way it was good to be brought down to earth with a bump before I get any grandiose ideas that everyone will be right behind me with this. But do people REALLY still think that people who shop in charity shops smell? Looks as if I have some way to go.
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