This afternoon, I announced on twitter: “Oh by the way, I’m on my way to local radio station L1. Doing an interview at 4pm. Think it’s live.”
When I got there, slightly late as announced, a lovely lady who appeared to be the make-up artist of the show, mentioned I needed – well, make-up. Oh okay, so we’re doing television! – I thought. I could’ve checked this beforehand, but to be honest, these days I’m okay with not keeping up with everything that’s happening in the world. In any case, the show’s called ‘Goeiemiddag Limburg’ (Good afternoon Limburg).
I did know I wouldn’t be the only one with an astronomical discovery on the show today. And by coincidence, a colleague of mine recently asked me if I had heard of Hay Rutten, whose story appeared in a newspaper as he’d discovered a minor planet. (This is the sort of question I get asked since I’m an amateur astronomer myself). Hay and I were both interviewed about our sort of mutual hobby and we discussed news as well.
Lovely people there. Thanks for the nice afternoon everyone! And for those who’ve missed it on telly (‘cause it was live), I have permission to show the video here later. For now, here’s a picture of the studio. Ta.
