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'Race Around The Underground' was a Carlton TV production (now ITV London), part of the 'Metroland' series of programmes that was first broadcast on ITV1 on Thursday 16th October 2003. Note though, that this was a different TV programme from 'The Tube' series, in which I had appeared in one of the episodes earlier in the year - see below for that. This is also not the programmes that gets repeated on Sky Travel a lot - again, that is the programme below. This Race Around the Undeground (23 minutes) show, covers our 'Tube4' attempt which took place in May 2003
TV Review
Me? I loved it, consider it the coup de grace of all media whore-ness, and framed it and hung it in my bathroom above the toilet. The online version of it may still appear here - depending if the ThisIsLondon website have redesigned their pages or not yet again.
The Tube - 24 Hours Prior to me getting on screen in Race Around the Underground, there was a TV series simply called 'The Tube' a six part show that was broadcast in January of 2003. Episode 2 of the show was entitled 24 hours and covers a variety of things that happen on The Tube network in the space of a one day period - one of those was following my progress around the network, is my Tube3 attempt with me & Dave. So whilst we're not in ALL of show, we're ceratinly in a lot (just over half) of it. This show was ultimately sold to Sky Travel and still gets repeated years later on SkyTravel about once a months, prompting an email in my inbox about once a months saying "I just saw you on TV after all this time..."
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 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 to take a very contrived picture, and the reporter spoke to me on the phone to ask a whole bunch of questions including trying to get thr route out of us! 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.
We got on the news website again a year later, when we did the TubeRelief charity run. Radio Mentions
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!
Zone 1 only challenge We also got on TV for the Zone1 challenge in 2004, when a BBC London reporter came and followed some us round as we did the challenge, this piece then appeared on the local news that night.
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They day after though, I was the review in the 
The LUL press office, keen to plug this away for all
it was worth setup 
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