Taking us Behind the Scenes this week is former BBC Tees and BBC Radio 5 Live broadcaster John Foster. With his trademark easy eloquence and illustrated with historic clips, John shares stories of his fascinating and remarkable lifetime behind the microphone: from a tenacious teenage presenter landing an interview with Bob Monkhouse, to scooping one of the last major radio appearances made by Sir Roger Moore. With almost every major British and Hollywood performer having guested on his daily shows, and appearing worldwide on Top Gear, John also tells what it was really like at the centre of major and often tragic breaking news stories in the North East. We also find out why, with his passion for show business and natural talent for hosting the highest rating regional shows in the country, he decided to take a step back from his dream job…

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Taking us Behind the Scenes this week is one of British television’s busiest and most experienced entertainment directors. Mick Thomas charts his incredible TV career from Ravensbourne College and LWT to directing the RVP, Comic Relief and the most successful quiz shows currently on our screens. Oh. And Mick also ‘reveals’ what happened to him at the opening of EuroDisney.

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In this week’s Behind the Scenes, audio wizard Rob Ashard chats about master mixing the sound desk on The Graham Norton Show, The Last Leg, Ant & Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway and the hundreds of other programmes with which he has been associated over the last 30 plus years. We reminisce about LWT’s Blind Date, Gladiators, Live from Her Majesty’s, The Brian Conley Show and ‘saving the day on Saturday Night Live’. Not his words, but director Ian Hamilton’s. We also learn how Rob spends his spare time behind the mic at the Santa Pod Raceway and spinning the discs as a much-respected popular DJ on Radio Caroline.

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In this week’s episode, top British Producer-Director Ian Hamilton returns to continue sharing memories of his incredible career in television – from the start-ups of TVam and The Chase, fond recollections of David Frost, Clive James and Frankie Howerd, to his adventures in EuroDisney, Las Vegas and at The Playboy Mansion.

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In this week’s episode, multi-talented and innately modest John Naylor, opens up about his incredible 20-year television career behind the scenes as a history documentary film-maker for Discovery, Yesterday and the History Channel. A cameraman, director, fight and stunt co-ordinator, armourer and weapons adviser, additionally, John’s a consultant, specialising in Egyptian, Greek and Roman warfare. He’s worked on Time Team, Scrapheap Challenge and Timewatch. Also a master prop maker, we hear how, with his son Sam, John once built an entire Tardis console from scratch in less than 3 days - and recently designed and opened a brand NEW television and film studio and costume facility in Sheffield.

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This week British Academy Award-winning television executive Ian Hamilton chats about his early fascination with show business which took him from watching Sunday Night At The London Palladium as a youngster, to producing and directing Live From The Palladium, 30 years later. We also hear what it was like working with Michael Parkinson, Cilla Black, Paul Daniels - and directing News at Ten in his spare time. Also, what was it really like in the Australian jungle during that first pioneering series of I’m A Celebrity – Get Me Out of Here!?

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Making a welcome return to Behind the Scenes, Joe discusses how a shocking childhood accident gave him the determination to conquer his fears, led to a life-long love of horror films and literature, testing his expertise on BBC TV’s Mastermind, and inspired his new careers as an artist, painter and best-selling author of chilling and macabre short stories

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In this week’s episode, one of British light entertainment television’s most successful and prolific ratings winners, Producer/Director Kevin Bishop, chats about heading up Eurovisions, Royal Variety Performances, and his many other incredible achievements during a 35-year career working with the great and the good (and occasionally me) at the BBC.

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This week one of Merseyside's finest ambassadors, hilarious raconteur and comedian Pete Price, chats about his love for Liverpool and show business, the Cavern Club, The Shakespeare Cabaret Theatre and New Faces, along with his friendship with some of the biggest stars in entertainment. Not forgetting those triumphant and sometimes traumatic years hosting his iconic, award-winning, late-night internationally acclaimed radio talk show.  

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In this week’s episode, the writer of the longest running newspaper column in Fleet Street, TV critic and entertainment/music editor, the unstoppable Garry Bushell returns, this time taking us behind the scenes of his journalism and broadcasting careers, his relentless work schedule and tells why, after 35 years of Bushell on the Box, it might be time to move on.

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