A busy week

05/06/2008 by admin.

3 June.  Up to Hull to return the marked exam scripts (all 48 of them) for my Generals and Generalship course and to second mark two other modules.  I tot up the total marks (exam and essays) and discover two of my students have failed (with an aggregate score of under 40) and will have to retake the exam.  Damn!  My year as Visiting Professor at Hull isn’t quite over.  Now I’ll have to set and mark the exam re-sits in late August, which is cutting it fine as my contract ends on the 31st. 

4 June.  Back to London to meet Dan, the director of my latest Timewatch on the Elizabethan Wreck.  We’re supposed to be discussing the script, but he tells me that the plan’s changed and I won’t be seeing it in advance.  There’s method in this madness.  John Farren, the Editor, wants him to film me investigating the story of the wreck in real time, which means minimal prep and plenty of genuine reaction.  I’m up for it, not least because it will save on background reading.  We start filming off Alderney on Sunday.   Apparently the life boat crew have offered to take us out in their boat at high tide to get an idea of the strength of the current where the ship went down.  But we have to be ready to depart the island by 5pm at the latest, which is going to be tricky as I’m doing an interview in Bristol that morning for Radio 4’s Broadcasting House.  It’s going to mean a train/car straight after the i/v to Southampton and a flight (possibly a charter) to Alderney.  Should be interesting.     

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