Channel 4 News at 25: Ian Searcey

My favourite Channel 4 News moment is relatively recent, and though not earth-shatteringly important in the news scheme of things 25th anniversary-wise, is personally very memorable.

Jon Snow interviewed ex-Procol Harum organist Matthew Fisher in the studio on the day he won his case against the rest of band over the authorship of Whiter Shade of Pale, in December last year.

Looking more like an absent minded teacher than a sixties hell raiser, Jon took him through the composing process and then he played us out at the end of the show.

As I was running the autocue for the programme that night and the organ was set up in the studio right next to my ear-holes, I had the strange experience of a classic 60s tune being played at bone-shaking volume by the original artist right next to my chair.

As things go, it beats the usual political interview experience by a mile, despite not being able to hear properly for half an hour-or-so afterwards.
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