Interviews Don't Always Go asplanned

To Dundee University's Duncan of Jordanstone College last night where one of my new clients, asplanned, was sponsoring a professional development event hosted by the Dundee Institute of Architects.
Bad weather and heavy traffic curtailed my involvement (lucky break for those assembled) but former Beeb man Neil Mudie was the main draw and gave a warts an' all account of how to handle the media and how architects can benefit from building up good relations with hacks.
Neil gave some words of warning about how to deal with a spitting, snarling hack pack in full flow, should any of the professionals attending find themselves in the unforgiving media spotlight.
The last time I met Neil was more than 10 years ago when as a fully paid up member of the hack pack I was dispatched to Dundee by the Daily Record to work up some Tayside coverage as past of a circulation push in the region. I was billeted at Graham Ogilvie's Dundee Press Agency (now Scottish News Agency) and the big man kept me right during my foray in to the unfamiliar territory that was Dundee. That of course meant an introduction to certain Dundee watering holes and it was the Speedwell Bar where I came across Neil who was the BBC's Man In Dundee at that time. Also in the hack pack was a young-ish Brian Lironi, then part of Ogilvie's thrusting agency. Little did we know Brian would later go on to fame if not fortune by blowing out Windy Alexander by quitting as the Scottish Labour Party's spin doctor.
Neil finished off his informative lecture on a light hearted note by showing a hilarious interview (never broadcast for obvious reasons)with Rangers manager Walter Smith and Chick Young, recorded when Smith was at his first stint with the Ibrox club. I had never seen it before and even if you have it's still worth viewing again.