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Getting involved with #BBCGETIN

I've just finished running the TV Training for the BBC's Apprenticeship Scheme - or BBC Get In. I do it twice a year and I love it. Because I get it . I was an apprentice too. In 1981 I somehow got a trainee place on a magazine... and it changed my life. Everything that happened to me over the next decades can be traced back to that one, amazing opportunity. It changed my life, so I know that #bbcgetin will change these apprentices lives too.

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Dec 15, 20251 min read

Training in the Highlands and Islands: 'Is mise David, tha mi à Manchester...'

At the start of the year I headed north - REALLY north - to do training work for BBC Alba, the Scots Gaelic service. As ever, I was prepared and started each day by introducing myself in Gaelic. They appreciated the gesture, I think. I hopped by plane and train from Glasgow to Stornoway, then to Inverness and then back to Glasgow. There were a few dramas with bad weather and stranded planes but the welcome was warm wherever I went and the food was great. Slàinte mhath!

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Jul 28, 20251 min read