Breaking News: Mouse disruptes Radio 5 Live

i4u · 29/01/13 - 13:04

Just happened live during an interview, female presenter let out a yelp and shrieked, "get it out of the studio".

The interview descended into chaos and came to an abrupt end with the presenter swearing 'It's on the bloody table!'.

[Deleted User] · 29/01/13 - 13:23

Probably another cunning move to encourage people to switch to DAB so you can hear the squeaking.

GeorgeS · 29/01/13 - 13:31

i4u wrote: »

Just happened live during an interview, female presenter let out a yelp and shrieked, "get it out of the studio".

The interview descended into chaos and came to an abrupt end with the presenter swearing 'It's on the bloody table!'.

The presenter who continued to read the news during the Blitz whilst Broadcasting House took a direct hit, is probably turning in his grave

JELLIES0 · 29/01/13 - 13:50

i4u wrote: »

Just happened live during an interview, female presenter let out a yelp and shrieked, "get it out of the studio".

The interview descended into chaos and came to an abrupt end with the presenter swearing 'It's on the bloody table!'.

How utterly professional

[Deleted User] · 29/01/13 - 14:08

Was it a computer mouse?

Howard_Hockey · 29/01/13 - 14:52

I heard it. If they can't present a programme properly when there's just a little ruddy mouse around, what chance when they're in a war zone?

I'd just switched over from Radio Four, I don't think Julian Worricker would have ended up stood on a chair!

radio4extracrap · 29/01/13 - 15:00

Pity the mouse chose lunchtime to emerge he/she would have brightened up queen victoria awful same old same old boreathon - however silly me the chosen one would still be tucked up in London...

Andy Walmsley · 29/01/13 - 15:08

A not uncommon occurrence it seems, there was a mouse in the BBC 3CR studio during Iain Lee's show on New Years Eve.

Audio of today's mouse incident:

http://audioboo.fm/boos/1181617-5live-mouse

Andy2 · 29/01/13 - 15:13

Just listened, thanks for the link. God, how unprofessional and soppy.

Ramsay Ladders · 29/01/13 - 15:19

And that is why women should not be allowed near a radio studio.:D

Joke, honestly!!

To be fair with all the squealing and rushing around it must have been an utterly terrifying experience. For the poor mouse.

Alan Thew · 29/01/13 - 15:28

Andy2 wrote: »

God, how unprofessional and soppy.

I disagree. I've just played the clip. I think Shelagh Fogarty was genuinely panicking. She sounded very distressed. Phobia is extremely upsetting and beyond the sufferer's control. Mouse phobia is extremely common and it's not reasonable to insist a live presenter must be able to hold their nerve when suddenly and utterly unexpectedly placed before a phobic stimulus. The comparison with reporters in war zones is totally irrelevant here.

Sense of Day · 29/01/13 - 15:56

Why so strait laced everyone? This is part of the fun of live radio. The unexpected. The honesty.

Can we not just see this for what it is - a mouse running around a room? Not sure I'd like it myself.

Comparisons with a war zone... come on now.

QwertyGirl1771 · 29/01/13 - 16:49

Video of Sheila here

http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2013-01-29/5-lives-shelagh-fogarty-attacked-by-mouse-live-on-air--shocking-video

[Deleted User] · 29/01/13 - 17:02

"If it runs over my hand I'm resigning".
Shame it didn't.

StrmChaserSteve · 29/01/13 - 17:29

wasa5livefan wrote: »

"If it runs over my hand I'm resigning".
Shame it didn't.

Could have got even more, if it had poop'd on her hand too

A friggin mouse !! It wasn't a T-Rex

Dex_Bracewell · 29/01/13 - 18:20

It's happened before on Irish radio years ago!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrmxOphTtAU

mossy2103 · 29/01/13 - 18:40

Howard_Hockey wrote: »

I heard it. If they can't present a programme properly when there's just a little ruddy mouse around, what chance when they're in a war zone?

It's a good job the n that Shelagh Fogarty does not report from overseas then, never mind any war zones.

mossy2103 · 29/01/13 - 18:41

Sense of Day wrote: »

Why so strait laced everyone? This is part of the fun of live radio. The unexpected. The honesty.

Can we not just see this for what it is - a mouse running around a room? Not sure I'd like it myself.

Comparisons with a war zone... come on now.

Spot on.

And some posters here talk about an over-reaction on R5l!

GeorgeS · 29/01/13 - 19:53

mossy2103 wrote: »

It's a good job the n that Shelagh Fogarty does not report from overseas then, never mind any war zones.

She reports from Salford, effectively a war zone

[Deleted User] · 29/01/13 - 20:31

Seems the mice that was wandering around the old Five Live studios and offices in Television Centre have also moved up to Salford full time..

...unlike Victoria Derbyshire.

[Deleted User] · 29/01/13 - 20:40

At least it didn't set the fire alarm off like everything else.

CitySlicker · 29/01/13 - 21:10

I've heard far worse, and besides this is 5 Live, not like it happened on the Today programme so I don't think many people would have batted an eyelid.