Many years ago I produced a Christmas special - the editorial brief was that everything we did would have some link to Christmas. I created a special Christmas Quiz, origins of the festival, panto guests - you know the kind of thing. One of the features was produced independently by a reporter and I gave him the brief to talk about a Christmas memory and come up with an Xmas tune that fitted.
A few hours before the deadline he shuffled up with his tape (yes it was that long ago) when I listened, it was a piece about being mugged and he had stuck a Pretenders track at the end. Too late to change I had to put it in the show but it sounded crap, out of place.
For some reason it was one of the few shows I produced that my mother listened to. Her comment was "very nice but why was there a man talking about mugging and why was there a pop record playing at the end of it?
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