So here’s me with Maeve, the producer of the Songs Of Praise Titanic edition (not sure why I’m making a very strange face, sorry about that!)

The original plan to film near Titanic Belfast was put on hold when the day dawned grey and drizzly – TQ needs to be shown-off in the sunshine!  So in the end we filmed my interview in the gorgeous, evocative surroundings of the Drawing Office – it’s been a good while since I’ve been through the doors and it was fantastic to see the oul’ place again.  Telling the story of the start of The Dock, right on the spot where so many ships started their lives on the drawing board… kinda appropriate!

(And just in case you were wondering – the glow emanating from my face in the first pic must be from the BBC lights – Susan assures me that I don’t emit a ‘Holy Glow’ the rest of the time.  A bit disappointing really.)

The really good news is that I therefore have to come back for a second (hopefully sunny) day’s filming, with the cameras following me around the TQ doing Dock-chaplain-type stuff and chatting to the celebrity presenter of this edition of SoP – (drum roll….) – none other than Eamonn Holmes, so it is!