The BBC's Saturday evening news programme PM featured an item about the megagame that took place on the first day of Connections UK 2018. The item lasted about five minutes, and can be heard on a recording that is available on the BBC website.
If you listen very, very carefully, I can be heard saying a few words via the (erratic) telephone link to the player who was acting as the President of the Russian Federation.
Unlike some of the other people featured in this item, my name was not mentioned. Such is the transience of fame! I was Prime Minister on Tuesday (albeit in a game) ... but I am a nobody today!
If you listen very, very carefully, I can be heard saying a few words via the (erratic) telephone link to the player who was acting as the President of the Russian Federation.
Unlike some of the other people featured in this item, my name was not mentioned. Such is the transience of fame! I was Prime Minister on Tuesday (albeit in a game) ... but I am a nobody today!
Gripping stuff Bob - Starts 17:00 minutes into the programme and ends at 22:05; ending in the pregnant, laced with menace, cliff hanging comment from the newly elected British Prime Minister Bob, "Vladimir can I ask you a question?"
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I have just finishes a book on Churchill and I can see the (good) similarities - hope the wife is coping with your alter ego ;)
Geordie an Exiled FoG,
DeleteIt was a tense game, especially towards the end. I did two interviews during the day, neither of which made it into the item ... which in retrospect was probably just as well!
My 'opponent' is someone I have met at previous Connections UK conferences, and we had a long chat on Wednesday morning about what we thought the other side was doing. In fact, they were the victims of their own intelligence operations, because if they had not bugged the Cabinet Room, we would not have needed to move to the secure bunker.
When you are comparing me with Churchill, I hope it is the dog and not the man you have in mind! I spent a lot of time saying 'Oh yes!' to requests for resources etc., and never mentioned 'bu**ering on' once.
(Thanks for the compliment, by the way. Churchill was a great man; flawed, often wrong, but nevertheless, a great man. He also suffered from depression [as I do], had a speech impediment [as I do, thanks to a life-long stutter that I have been taught to manage], and was a Freemason [as I am].)
All the best,
Bob
Good news piece. Even more sinister just after the interview at 22.05 on the programme news that Cornwall has been invaded by a branch of Greggs in Saltash ... the future of Cornish pasty making is not safe. Is this Russian interference too in everyday life? It could be the Prayerbook Rebellion of 1497 all over again.
ReplyDeleteMIN ManofTin,
DeleteIt was a very interesting game.
Funnily enough, threats to the Cornish pasty could have been the sort of crisis that might have arisen during my tenure as PM. We had credit card melt-downs, floods, terrorist attacks, nationwide outbreaks of arson, etc., ... so a threat to a regional foodstuff would have fitted in quite well.
All the best,
Bob