Jealous? My God, I hope not. In fact, I'm over joyed, Michael - point me to your filmography! I've had few run-ins with TV in my time, narrow scrapes as I think of 'em : I was interviewed by a researcher from Coast in its early days and embarrassed myself utterly by falling into the sea at Marsden rock whilst demonstrating my 6-foot bamboo flutes - and I narrowly avoided being interviewed by Aled Jones for Songs of Praise during the Morpeth Gathering a few years back (he wanted to talk about my St. Cuthbert : A Life in Miracles show but got caught in the deluge someplace and eventually turned up looking less than chipper so we called it off). I love the telly too much, I think, to be on it myself, though (as you say) YouTube is a different matter, where I might post things like THIS (my last to date) without worrying about too many people seeing it (102 views in 11 months seems about right somehow). Radio, OTOH, I can deal with and am mighty proud of having my music featured thrice (to date!) on Radio Three in all the right places (Mixing It, World on Three and Late Junction), just as long as I don't have to be there. I've done live radio a few times and have hated every minute of it...
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