Christmas in June
We've started promoting our Christmas and New Year schedule, but the planning for this started way back in June. Exactly six months before Christmas we gathered in a conference room which we'd decorated with tinsel and Christmas trees to get everyone into the right frame of mind. I came along at the end of the day dressed as Santa.
This Christmas we have a great variety of prgrammes. Fred MacAulay is live on Christmas morning - again co-presenting with his wife - and the Hidden Gift is the umbrella title for four short dramas, all with the theme of giving. We also have some new sitcoms, which we recorded in front of a live audience earlier in the year and also some fascinating features and documentaries, including one on the first peace-time Christmas in Scotland after the second world war.
But it's a funny job this. Now that everyone else is gearing up for the festive season, I find myself in meetings to plan new music programmes for April next year. In my head, it's already springtime.
