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Oakamoor, Staffordshire, 15 February 2004

Stewart Ainsworth in hot water

Stewart Ainsworth found himself in hot water on this shoot. 'I just can't believe him!' said sound boss Steve Shearn. 'He's dried it out and there's still no spark of life in it.'

While clambering around the landscape in search of clues to its past, Stewart jumped over a ravine and dropped his expensive production communications radio in a river. 'I don't think it works anymore,' said Stewart sheepishly.

One more argument in favour of what John Gater called the 'scientific approach' as he gloated over the discovery of a furnace that had been picked up by geophysics on a site that Stewart had dismissed as uninteresting.

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