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Two Decades of Innovation: Reflecting on My BBC Projects and Digital Creativity

2020-02-11

Great to be back at BBC Northern Ireland today in Belfast to talk through a project. First time seeing some of the team since 2008 ... have worked on and off on BBC projects across the UK since 2001. Got me thinking why I had been here before... 2001 - Lifeboats.tv for the RNLI (to work with the RNLI to help use the Internet (still new back then) to make videos with lifeboat crews that told the story of why real people risk their lives to save others....) The intention was to make the biggest video based website on the internet (three years before Youtube)... Kids made lots of the films, over 500 were made... but the most memorable part of that project was not in Ireland, but over in Tobermory, Scotland... we were filming on the Tobermory lifeboat and a live distress call came in, there was no time to pack up and leave the boat so we went out on a real shout... in the dark... in a remote part of Scotish waters... it was cold... we went for about five miles... ... the lifeboat then stopped, the floodlights were turned on and the Captain instructed all eight of us aboard to take position and pointed each of us at what part of the sea we were to watch as the floodlight scanned the are…

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