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Upon arrival in Charleston, we immediately proceeded to broadcast studios for The Bridge (105.5 FM), where ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
bookczuk had arranged for an on air interview to promote the BookCrossing convention. We were running a bit late, but our host patiently waited for our arrival, and when we found the place, we were promptly directed upstairs to the broadcast booth.
There were six BookCrossers present:bookczuk, antof9, skyring, molyneux66, Netstation and myself. The studio was a bit snug with all of us in there, and with only two extra microphones, we had to play a bit of musical chairs to get on the air. I was still suffering from a nagging cough, so I chose to avoid the microphone so as to not cough in Charleston's collective ears.
As we entered the studio, Netstation did a double take, staring at our host. It turns out that this guy looks amazingly like Jim Hawkins (aka JimOnTheRadio) from BBC Radio Shropshire. Our Jim Hawkins look-alike seemed quite interested in the convention, and we found ourselves in his studio for a full hour, chatting both on and off the air. I think we did a good job promoting BookCrossing in general and the convention in particular, and hopefully it helped encourage the people of Charleston to pick up and journal some of the books we were to scatter around the city.
On the way out of the station, I left a book in the station's reception area. I'm not sure how I came to be the only one in that group of BookCrossers to leave a book behind, but I'm glad I did. Later that evening, when I went to make the release notes for the day, I discovered that the book had been journaled by our on-air host, who had also joined BookCrossing under the screenname rockdoc98. Not bad for an afternoon's work, I'd say.
bookczuk had arranged for an on air interview to promote the BookCrossing convention. We were running a bit late, but our host patiently waited for our arrival, and when we found the place, we were promptly directed upstairs to the broadcast booth.There were six BookCrossers present:
bookczuk, antof9, skyring, molyneux66, Netstation and myself. The studio was a bit snug with all of us in there, and with only two extra microphones, we had to play a bit of musical chairs to get on the air. I was still suffering from a nagging cough, so I chose to avoid the microphone so as to not cough in Charleston's collective ears.As we entered the studio, Netstation did a double take, staring at our host. It turns out that this guy looks amazingly like Jim Hawkins (aka JimOnTheRadio) from BBC Radio Shropshire. Our Jim Hawkins look-alike seemed quite interested in the convention, and we found ourselves in his studio for a full hour, chatting both on and off the air. I think we did a good job promoting BookCrossing in general and the convention in particular, and hopefully it helped encourage the people of Charleston to pick up and journal some of the books we were to scatter around the city.
On the way out of the station, I left a book in the station's reception area. I'm not sure how I came to be the only one in that group of BookCrossers to leave a book behind, but I'm glad I did. Later that evening, when I went to make the release notes for the day, I discovered that the book had been journaled by our on-air host, who had also joined BookCrossing under the screenname rockdoc98. Not bad for an afternoon's work, I'd say.
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