[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":11},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-post-authors-live-cakes-in-space-at-bbc-scotland":3},{"_type":4,"body":5,"bodyHtml":6,"excerpt":5,"featuredImage":5,"publishedAt":7,"slug":8,"tags":9,"title":10},"blogPost",null,"\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/Authors_live_sketch_zpsc31lqm1f-740c4430ea.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\n\u003Ci>\u003Cb>Blog written with my co-pilot \u003Ca href=\"https://twitter.com/philipreeve1\">Philip Reeve\u003C/a>:\u003C/i>\u003C/b> So our shiny silver space shuttle set us down in sunny Glasgow, where we’d been invited by \u003Ca href=\"http://scottishbooktrust.com/video/authors-live/sarah-mcintyre-and-philip-reeve\">Scottish Book Trust\u003C/a> to do one of their \u003Ca href=\"https://twitter.com/search?q=%23AuthorsLive&src=typd\">Authors Live\u003C/a> events. \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/Authors_live_landing_zpsfmv7ci3a-e2b50ad2df.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nThese events take place at the BBC’s Glasgow studios; there’s a small invited audience of children from local schools, but the show is also broadcast \u003Ca href=\"http://scottishbooktrust.com/video/authors-live/sarah-mcintyre-and-philip-reeve\">live online\u003C/a> to any other schools who want to sign up for it.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/Authors_live_heather_zpsmti3cmcg-fe1ec7c2f8.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nWe arrived on Wednesday afternoon to meet Scottish Book Trust’s \u003Ca href=\"https://twitter.com/Hedzie\">Heather Collins\u003C/a> and some of the team who were going to be in charge of the broadcast. Part of the \u003Ci>\u003Cb>Cakes in Space\u003C/i>\u003C/b> show involves a video transmission from some spoon-crazy alien life-forms called the Poglites. At all the festivals we’ve done we’ve used a video which Philip and his wife \u003Ca href=\"https://instagram.com/moorland/\">Sarah Reeve\u003C/a> shot on his phone, of two Poglite puppets in a spaceship set made out of old polystyrene packaging. \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/poglite_vid_zpswyeeaigu-a96bbdfa4d.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\n\u003C!--more Click here for more under the cut!-->\\r\nBut to be shown by the BBC it needed to be ‘broadcast quality’, so we brought the puppets with us and re-shot the whole thing in one of the vaguely futuristic-looking stairwells at the BBC. \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/making_poglite_vid2_zpskshnhs2n-78cb7e959b.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/making_poglite_vid_zpsiwax7n0n-cee79f59ab.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nThe actual show took place on Thursday morning. We suited up and waited nervously in the hotel lobby for the shuttle to take us to BBC HQ…\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/Authors_live_pickup_zpszx86lqkc-982504210e.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/Authors_live_bbcfront_zps3urcq2jx-f3552a5255.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nFilming was to take place in an open atrium area in the middle of the BBC building, which had been decorated for the purpose with stars and silver podia (grammar). It takes a LOT of people to arrange even a simple broadcast like this. Here are some of the team…\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/Authors_live_bbcteam_zpsbfjazegs-e7bd949df5.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nAnd here are some of the audience - a weird and wonderful collection of interstellar oddballs shipped in from a neighbouring star-cluster. \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/alan_peebles1_zpsemepxwut-466add2e4c.jpg\">\\r\n\u003Cfont size=\"1\">\u003Ci>Photo by \u003Ca href=\"http://www.alanpeebles.com/\">Alan Peebles\u003C/a>\u003C/i>\u003C/font>\\r\n\\r\nThey seemed friendly though. One of them, Abena, brought us this nice letter, so we knew they Came In Peace.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/Authors_live_letter_zpsqdd8gcfs-6f90478481.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nWe’d never done a live broadcast before, so we were a bit nervous, but everything seemed to go well. \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/alan_peebles4_zpszykgnuqq-5d5ce8d349.jpg\">\\r\n\u003Cfont size=\"1\">\u003Ci>Photo by \u003Ca href=\"http://www.alanpeebles.com/\">Alan Peebles\u003C/a>\u003C/i>\u003C/font>\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/alan_peebles3_zps6630frjq-3970de6583.jpg\">\\r\n\u003Cfont size=\"1\">\u003Ci>Photo by \u003Ca href=\"http://www.alanpeebles.com/\">Alan Peebles\u003C/a>\u003C/i>\u003C/font>\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/alan_peebles5_zpsqy9kmkl1-501b3aa711.jpg\">\\r\n\u003Cfont size=\"1\">\u003Ci>Photo by \u003Ca href=\"http://www.alanpeebles.com/\">Alan Peebles\u003C/a>\u003C/i>\u003C/font>\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/alan_peebles2_zpskcxtjoyi-bbd61354f6.jpg\">\\r\n\u003Cfont size=\"1\">\u003Ci>Photo by \u003Ca href=\"http://www.alanpeebles.com/\">Alan Peebles\u003C/a>\u003C/i>\u003C/font>\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/alan_peebles6_zpsfskzoyjg-6a5ec24dbb.jpg\">\\r\n\u003Cfont size=\"1\">\u003Ci>Photo by \u003Ca href=\"http://www.alanpeebles.com/\">Alan Peebles\u003C/a>\u003C/i>\u003C/font>\\r\n\\r\nAnd you can see for yourself, because one of the great things about the Authors Live scheme is that recordings of the shows are kept on the Scottish Book Trust website, where anyone can watch them whenever they fancy. So we now have a lasting record of the \u003Ci>Cakes In Space\u003C/i> show, which future generations will be able to look at and say, ‘WHAT were you THINKING?’\\r\n\\r\n\u003Ca href=\"http://scottishbooktrust.com/video/authors-live/sarah-mcintyre-and-philip-reeve\">\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/scotbktrust_link_image_zpsaomow9wc-c1533dcb59.jpg\">\u003C/a>\\r\n\u003Ci>Click on the image to watch the video!\u003C/i>\\r\n\\r\nIt’s especially nice to have this record because this was the last \u003Ci>Cakes in Space\u003C/i> show we’ll be doing (at least for a while). In the autumn we’ll be unveiling a whole new show based on \u003Ci>\u003Cb>Pugs of the Frozen North\u003C/b>\u003C/i>. Big thank yous to Heather and her team from \u003Ca href=\"https://twitter.com/scottishbktrust\">Scottish Book Trust\u003C/a>, teacher Jennifer Buchan (who created Author Live's \u003Ci>Cakes in Space\u003C/i> \u003Ca href=\"http://www.scottishbooktrust.com/learning/teachers-librarians/teaching-resources-cpd/second-level-upper-primary/cakes-in-space\">Learning Resource page\u003C/a>), and \u003Ca href=\"https://twitter.com/JaniceForsyth\">Janice Forsyth\u003C/a>, Donald, Irene, Neil, Liz, photographer \u003Ca href=\"https://twitter.com/a_peebs\">Alan Peebles\u003C/a> and everyone at \u003Ca href=\"https://twitter.com/BBCScotland\">BBC Scotland\u003C/a> for making it all possible. \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/adamlisa_zpsmh6idsax-815ee83268.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nWhile we were in Glasgow, we also managed to catch up with Sarah's Glasgow Auntie and our friends \u003Ca href=\"https://twitter.com/Adam_T_Murphy\">Adam Murphy\u003C/a> (who draws the \u003Ca href=\"http://www.thephoenixcomic.co.uk/product/corpse-talk-season-one/\">\u003Ci>Corpse Talk\u003C/i>\u003C/a> strip for \u003Ci>The Phoenix\u003C/i> and his comics colourist partner \u003Ca href=\"https://twitter.com/acouplecomics\">Lisa Murphy\u003C/a>. (Great to see you guys!)","2015-06-12T21:27:00.000Z","authors-live-cakes-in-space-at-bbc-scotland",[],"authors live: cakes in space at bbc scotland",1776628727696]