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Welcome to an At The Flicks interview show. To be more precise, a face-to-face recorded discussion, the first one we have done for years (thanks Covid).\n\nThe person who honoured us with his presence is Simon Taylor.\xa0\xa0For years Simon worked in that most frightening of environments \u2013 Live TV.\xa0\xa0Amongst his many accomplishments are his work on The Big Breakfast, Johnny Vaughn Tonight and The Paul O\u2019Grady show.\xa0\xa0Don\u2019t worry if you live in locales that have never heard of any of those shows, they are very British institutions, however I am sure you will recognise the stresses and euphoria of such work regardless of wherever you live.\n\nSo it was that Graham and Jeff had to try to remember how to set up the mics and recording equipment for the session.\xa0\xa0Not forgetting a glass of wine for each of us, including our guest (more on that later).\xa0\xa0You can be judge of whether they accomplished a successful transition from Zoom to Room. As for our chat with Simon, we managed to answer the following questions:\xa0\n\n- How did you do guest research before the internet?\xa0\n- Who were your favourite guests?\n- Which item brought onto The Frank Skinner show surprised Jamie Oliver?\n- What was unusual about the Juliette Binoche interview conducted for The Big Breakfast?\n- What does go on behind the scenes of The Antiques Roadshow?\n\nThese questions and many more about that toughest of all TV challenges will be answered in this fascinating, informative and often very funny interview.\n\nWe also briefly chatted about life after Live TV.\xa0\xa0Since leaving that pressure cooker life, Simon now works in the world of wine, and we even got to talk to him about wine recommendations \u2013 which almost caused Graham to end the interview early so he could go and sample them!\xa0\n\nIf you live near Stroud, why not go and say hello to Simon in the Stroud Wine Company Shop \u2013 a wonderful fellow and very knowledgeable on the subject of wines, and of course, Live TV.\n\nBefore we forget, please see the link to the Stroud Wine Company website below.\n\nIf we don\u2019t see you there, then we will catch up At The Flicks.\n\nBye for now.