Last week I had an unexpected phone call from one of my old school friends, Chris (or Mr Roberts as he is now more commonly known). Chris is a teacher at St Augustine’s of Canterbury High in Oldham and some of his pupils were taking part in the BBC School News Report. The Year 9 Talented and Gifted pupils were planning on putting together a news report for the BBC and wanted to include the Patch Expedition, of course I said yes.

So on Thursday I recieved a phone call from a Faryaan who did my first ever interview about our expedition. She was an extremely good interviewer and asked some really interesting questions. However, what Chris and Faryaan forgot to mention was that they were going to use a recording of my answers in an online video report! I had assumed that they would be just be producing a written news report, lesson learned never assume.

So I must appologise to the Year 9 team for my rather iffy performance. The guys who put a huge amount of effort into making the report, which also included an interview with Gerard Kearns from the TV series Shameless (who as an  actor turned in a much more professional performance than I did), did a great job. Well done to everyone involved!

If you would like to see their report click here (no comments on the bit with me in it though!)