It's Not What You Think by Chris Evans

Author:Chris Evans [Evans, Chris]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Biography & Autobiography, Entertainment & Performing Arts, Fiction
ISBN: 9780007327218
Google: hJRCQt3JVqYC
Amazon: 0007327218
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
Published: 2009-10-14T23:00:00+00:00

Top 10 Books that Have Inspired Me and at Times Kept Me Sane

10 Marcus Aurelius—Meditations

9 Deepak Chopra—The Path to Love

8 The Dalai Lama—The Art of Happiness

7 Bertrand Russell—The Conquest of Happiness

6 Alain de Botton—Essays on Love

5 Charles Dickens—A Christmas Carol

4 Ernest Hemingway—The Old Man and The Sea

3 Lao Tsu—The Way

2 Bernie Brillstein—Where Did I Go Right?

1 Sam Goldwyn—The Goldwyn Touch

Inevitably Radio Radio tanked as we all suspected it would and with it the hopes and dreams of satellite radio for ever, but hey, this was London so we had a party anyway. This city really was a strange place.

After Radio Radio disbanded, all the staff went their separate ways whereas I just went the one way—back to the flat Sara and I had rented in Camden. Only three months into our new lives in London and once again Sara found herself in the company of a boyfriend who didn’t have a job, but as always she continued to be brilliant, beautiful and totally behind me 100 per cent. She helped me prepare some new CVs, I sent them off and rekindled my old pastime of staring at our phone, willing it to ring. I had learnt a lot in the last couple of months, had mixed with some of the greats of my profession, but once again I was out of work and felt things going cold. I wanted more of the same and I was willing to do practically anything to help make that happen.

Some time during that night in the toilets back at Radio Radio I had obviously made an impression on The Dude and little did I know he was now out there working his magic very much on my behalf.

The old BBC Radio London had recently closed down and was to be relaunched shortly as a new, more cosmopolitan, forward-thinking station. It would also receive a new name—GLR, Greater London Radio. The Dude was to be part of the debut line up and the new boss who was looking for fresh people with a fresh new vibe had asked him if he knew of anyone who might fit the bill. Along with a couple of other names The Dude had very kindly mentioned me, as a result of which I was contacted and asked to come in for an interview.

Wow, this really was something—I now had a shot at working for the BBC.

To get into the BBC was no mean feat, especially as a producer. It usually involved some kind of university education or at least a stint at broadcast school. To circumvent this type of route was almost unheard of but if the BBC were happy to see me, I was more than happy to see them.

When I said I was asked in for an interview, I ought to clarify that the BBC don’t have interviews so much, they have a process called ‘boarding’. It’s one of the typical BBC phrases that still exist to this day, like holidays are always referred to as ‘leave’,

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