The Other Side of the Story
Chris Bennett shares a more hopeful view of Belfast…
A BBC crew arrived at Dock Cafe yesterday to film some interviews with ordinary people in the TQ – hoping that they would have some everyday good–news stories to balance what they expected to be a pretty grim edition of The View on BBC1 last night.
In the end the programme was so bunged–full of angry, aggressive, accusing voices that the footage from the TQ got squeezed out. In all fairness
a quick blast of enthusiasm from me
was shoehorned in to the finished programme, (23:23) but not the brilliant, funny, hopeful, normal voices of the cafe customers (although hopefully they may yet surface on TV at Sunday lunchtime).
This is a taste of what was left on the cutting room floor…