Well, I went to a radio a fair while ago and never wrote about it, but feel as though I should now as it was very enjoyable and the first recording I’ve been to of ‘Chain Reaction’. ‘Chain Reaction’ is a BBC Radio 4 chat show in which someone from the world of entertainment selects another person that they want to interview. This interviewee then becomes the next week’s interviewer. ‘Tis a good idea.
I wanted to go to this recording mainly to see Olivia Colman, who I am a fan of and have met before. Olivia Colman is a very famous actress who is always on the TV, most recently being in programmes such as ‘Broadchurch’.
Sharon Horgan is an actress, writer and comedian, best known for her work on television series ‘Pulling’ (which I haven’t seen). I hadn’t really heard of her before I went to the recording, but I’ve heard her name mentioned a few times after that. Interesting.
Anyway, the recording consisted of Olivia Colman interviewing Sharon Horgan about her work and anything else that she wanted to ask, and it was quite funny. I must admit that I can’t remember exactly all that was asked and said, but Olivia Colman had prepared a variety of different questions. Some of which she was proud of and then realised that they didn’t make much sense once spoken. ‘Twas great!
When Olivia Colman ran out of questions she asked audience members if they could help her out, saying “one of my friends [insert name of audience member] was wondering…” and ’twas very amusing. However, she was asked to redo this without the names in the retakes.
I enjoyed the recording a surprising amount (I don’t know why I wasn’t looking forward to it) and think I’ll definitely go to another Chain Reaction recording in the future.
As always I met the cast outside (although this time I only met Olivia Colman) and we had a brief chat and got a photo with her. Good times!
Pure Destruction 