Radio 4 briefly went off-air this morning. This was strangely replaced by a documentary about T-shirts, after an alarm in the building rang.
After a news program about GhislaineMaxwell, whose sextrafficking trial trial will begin in New York today at 7:39, the channel was silent for about one minute, before a random documentary about T-shirts was aired.
Then, an advert for one of the channel’s shows played before a voice came on air saying:
“This is BBC Radio 4. I’m afraid we’re having some problems which are preventing us from continuing with our scheduled programme as smoothly as we wish.
“Many apologies for the disruption but rest we’re doing our best to restore normal service as soon as possible.”
The same messages and ads were played for 15 minutes, until the show ended at 7.55am.
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According to reports, the disturbance occurred because an alarm in the building rang with a message reading “Disruption” “please the leave the building immediately”Martha Kearney, Nick Robinson, and Martha Kearney presented the show.
Robinson stated: “We have a little alarm going on here”Kearney stated that it was “quite dramatic”, adding: “Hopefully it is a false alarm”.
Robinson presented the report, while the staff listened. “work out what is going on”.
Robinson declared: “As far as we can tell there wasn’t actually an emergency. We were outside in the cold for a little while but we are relieved to be back on the Today programme.”
The programme continued with Thought For The Day – which wasn’t t-shirt related.
People were confused by the drama and found it hard to concentrate.
Robinson also celebrated his return to radio:
All’s well that ends well. Indy100 This story was reported by Radio 4 and BBC.