#theinterns

Y’know when I said my life was going to get weird? It did.

So our first week entailed a lot of training on the different systems and introducing myself to many important people. Everyone is so lovely; I’ve not met anyone at all that I’ve not got on with. I got to shadow a team assistant from 1Xtra Weekends and I learnt what they do day to day, including making the montages that go out every hour (those clips that have 3 bits of songs and lots of sound effects) and I even made 8 myself that went out over Ace’s breakfast show on Saturday and Sunday (insert ‘Cheers Kev’ here). We went to lots of meetings including my personal favourite, the ‘Tea and Cake Meeting’ it’s pretty self-explanatory! Plus the Interns went on a very special ‘Cheese Run’ for Greg James’ podcast.

Now onto the fun bit, working on the different shows! I was so excited when I looked at my schedule and saw that on my 2nd week I’d be working on the Scott Mills show, I’ve been such a massive fan of the show for so long and to be able to peek behind the curtain was incredible. The team is amazing and they’ve let me do so much early on; I’ve been finding ‘Real or No Reals’, editing clips for Innuendo Bingo and compiling research packs on guests.

On to the weird parts of my time here, now so many people had told me that “no day is the same”. They were not wrong. In my first 2 weeks I literally bumped into Ricky Gervais, saw Caroline Flack and Zoe Ball get spat on (during Bingo), watched Greg James ride Matt Edmondson’s scooter round the office and heard members of Fifth Harmony doing vocal warm ups in the toilet. On top of that,  my research packs that I mentioned earlier, have been noticed by the right people. When researching Iggy Azalea I mentioned her pet horses in the notes, and then during the interview she proceeded to do an incredible impression of a “Swedish horse”. Even better, during my research of Ryan Tedder off of One Republic, I stumbled on the fact he had recently purchased a Drake colouring book. When Scott mentioned this in the interview, Ryan said “wow, you must have really good researchers, how did you find that?!” at which point everyone in the studio turned to look at me. I immediately blushed.

Finally, saving best ‘til last… I met the one and only Craiiiiiiig Daaaaavid. What a lovely bloke. He stood and talked to me and my fellow interns for a good 5 minutes after his live lounge with Blonde.

So crazy and it’s only the end of my second week, catch you in a bit!

Travis!

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