Day 2: Pretty similar to yesterday; still worked on Jean and Jeanette in the Britain's Biggest Hoarders show, and got a more detailed tour of a couple of places; specifically the Master Control Room (MCR), which is where they keep multiple backups of every show they work on (on hard drives, as well as tapes), as well as the required facilities to archive all the material. There's a minimum of two backups to every single show at any time within the Twofour Plymouth building (they also have offices in London, and they're international as well, with offices in Los Angeles, and Abu Dhabi).
Day 3: Bit of a changeup today; Laura (Johnstone, the person in charge of me and the other people on work experience) switched me from Jean and Jeanette to working on Wendy now. She's quite different to Jean; she seems even more difficult to deal with; Jasmine (Harman, the host of the show) looks visibly frustrated throughout too. I did look her up online after the first day and found out her firsthand experience of hoarding; her mum was an equally compulsive hoarder, and they were actually on a show before called "My Hoarder Mum and Me", which is where "Britain's Biggest Hoarders" has come from, and coincidentally, Twofour also did that show.
Day 4: Changeover again. Laura's now put me on Jeff, who is the one from Plymouth, which was who I was hoping for. He's a former engineer (in the footage I've got, he's also wearing overalls throughout) and seems to be quite a computer geek as well; there's loads of old computers and computing parts around his place, as well as a load of computing magazines. Seems I relate to him a little bit with the computer obsession. It turns out there's also a little memento of his in the Twofour office near where I'm working...
No one there seems to know what it is, and I haven't got a clue either. I tweeted that picture asking if any of my followers knew what it was, but no replies.
Answers on a postcard!
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