We are at BBC Radio Northampton having a tour of the studio. The man is trying to use a “baking a cake” analogy to explain the role of the producer and the mixing desk to the children but it’s not having the intended effect.
“It looks difficult, but it’s like riding a bicycle” he says, of the mixing desk, “when you make a cake, what do you start with?” he ventures.
“Money” comes the reply
“Um, ye-es, you need to money to buy the ingredients but what do you put into the cake?”
Eventually, after several minutes of torturous promting, he extracts sugar, flour, butter as cake ingredients and asks, “well, what do you do with all the ingredients?”
Then, a thought enters Pixie’s head and she makes her way to the front and interupts the man to tell him “When I was three I had a very small bike”
“And did it have three wheels?” asked the man
Pixie looked puzzled for a moment and then continued as if he had not spoken, “It was very small because I was small”
“Ah,” said the man, trying to get back on track, he continues, “you mix it up-”
“And chocolate!” interupts somebody else.
The man sighs and goes onto to discuss the somewhat safer ground of what happens in the event of the Queen’s death.