| Our 'Tube3' run was recorded and broadcast as part of the ITV/Carlton programme 'The Tube'. The first episode of 'The Tube' went out on TV on January 9th, and right at the end, as part of the 'Next Week...' slot there was a twenty second trailer for next weeks show which had me in it.
This is the full 10 minutes interview as broadcast.
'Race around the Underground' went out on ITV1 (Carlton Region only) on Thursday 16th October 2003. I had a few mates round, we got some beers and pizza in, and we settled down to watch ...
This programme has never been repeated since, and is NOT the same as the one shown on Sky Travel.
The coup-de-grace of media whoreness had to be the next day when I got 'done' by Victor Lewis-Smith in the London paper the Evening Standard (below) Read the online version of it here, or you can see how it part appeared in the scan show here. I think it looks better in the paper than it does online. I have it framed and hanging in my stairwell at home. When we got the world record which we'd set in May 2005 confirmed four months later, I contacted the Evening Standard who ran the story (TFL/LU were "not interested") and from there, lots of other media outlets picked up on us. As it is, in the end they met up with me & Neil at High St. Ken station on Tuesday afternoon, and take our picture (very contrived!) and the interviewer talks to me on the phone and tries to get our exact route out of me. The next day - Wednesday - it appears in the Evening Standard, and then of course it seems that everyone is interested, and it seems that my mobile number is public property as I get called up by all and sundry over the next couple of days. Mainly (because at the time I worked for them!) I was quite pleased that we got a mention on the BBC news website: Radio Mentions We get on most of the London radio stations bulletins throughout the day on Wednesday - it seems that they're all picking it up from the Evening Standard article. I have people emailing me and texting me telling me that they've heard us being mention as the "And finally..." amusing anecdotal story at the end of bulletins throughout the afternoon.
Then, on the way home my friend Phil calls me up to tell me that on Capital FM, Neil Fox the evening presenter has been talking about us, and getting people to call in with their tube related tunes! In the end they plump for "Going Underground" by The Jam, and "Sound of the Underground" by Girls Aloud.
Phil later gets me a copy of the tape, a short edited version of which is here:
We got in various local papers & publications, but my favourite was when we appeared in On The Move - the internal staff magazine for London Underground workers. They'd used a picture I'd sent to them, but they put my name (Geoff) against a picture of Neil! Funny ...
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