> Right ho, Mr Mellor, your time is up! > > I'm not sure that the title I gave is the correct one, it's what > appeared on the paperwork at the time, may well have changed by the > time it was broadcast or released on VHS/DVD. > Hee hee - the truth is out !! > > Dilwyn, you must be more careful over the quality of programs you appear on-!!
Right, you asked for it, here's the full list of TV programs I appeared on: 1) Bilidowcar, a Welsh kids program about 20 years ago, talking about BBC micros and the little logo turtles etc common at the time. 2) Various news programs in English and Welsh as tourism spokesman for Snowdon Railway while I worked there. Plus a magazine program where I had to talk about the effects of Foot And Mouth disease on the tourism industry in the area, which I hated because I knew nothing about it, they chose me simply and only because I spoke Welsh. Got my GCSE pass mark in waffling on that one. 3) Children In Need - both in a professional capacity (working in vision for BBC) and once in a charitable role, including a legendary one where a farmer and his sheepdog were being interviewed from a remote studio and the dog took a dislike to the heat of the TV lights and walked off taking the microphones etc with him, live, so I had to walk inot vision to retrieve and reset the sound equipment. 4) Various Welsh "Eisteddfodau" (festivals?) on stage, as stage hand and setting up microphones etc. Including one where I was told not to cross the stage to the exit, so I jumped off the front of the stage, fogetting the size of the flowerbedding at the front of the stage, got my foot caught in something on the way down and ripped my trousers, falling right in front of another camera which I nearly knocked over. Al in front of an audience of hundreds of people in the pavilion, never mind the TV. 5) A Celtic folk festival where I had to retrieve a drunken Irish radio producer I was working with who'd wandered into vision (I was doing the radio coverage, but I got told to "go fetch the drunken Irish git" by an angry Welsh TV producer in the TV vehicle next to ours. 6) Various appearances at football and rugby matches assisting commentators. Including almost getting knocked out by a football when I wasn't looking. (Saved by the big chunky BBC headphones I was wearing). 7) Partly in shot playing the "miming" tapes from an on-stage DAT machine for certain Welsh bands on tour about 10 years ago. And as for radio, how long have you got??? Dilwyn Jones. Star of stage, screen, radio and flowerbeds. Not. After reading the above, do you wonder I got fed up of broadcasting after 20 years with the BBC? And now, some 5 years after giving it up, it all comes back to haunt me??? -- Dilwyn Jones
