Prior to this day we were told to upload some recording onto our ipods that wasn’t to be listened to until the day. Admittedly, I did listen to them and was quite baffled by the random voices and stories I heard. It was not until that Wednesday; when meeting Richard Knight at Holborn Library did it all make sense. Richard was a part of an audio-time capsule project, where a team collected hundreds of hours of footage, capturing the history of Kings Cross and stories from its inhabitants.
After we meet Alan Dein, an award winning radio broadcaster, we learnt that were going to interview random people, unscripted and totally unprepared! I was really excited, until I started of course. Having a microphone shoved in your face with an interviewee more ready than you are and eyes glaring in your direction with the read light on, isn’t the most comfortable situation it the world. Nevertheless, after asking a few questions, things became easier and by the end of the day, Naomi and I were fearlessly approaching people in St. Pancras and it was exhilarating! One of the highlight was definitely the interviewing the bartender from ‘The Boot’ pub and her ghost stories.