"We held a Cabinet meeting at 'Paddock' far from the light of day, and each Minister was requested to inspect and satisfy
himself about his sleeping and working apartments. We celebrated this occasion by a vivacious luncheon, and then returned
to Whitehall."
Winston Churchill
29th September 1939
In order to conduct a radio interview, some form of background noise, indicative of the general ambience of
the location is required. As such, an asylum would be not practical - the mildew and dry rot of a day room
would not really project itself across the airwaves, being primarily visual. That said, the BBC wouldn’t
touch such a location anyway; permission would be required before Auntie would even step onto a site.
Therefore the interview about the this rather illegal subject of snooping around took place within the legally
entered subterranean tunnels of the backup cabinet war rooms at Paddock. Nicely aural, with lots of dripping
water and echoes, and it made a nice pleasant change to the usual rushing around involved in an infiltration.
There was also mildew and dry rot, but you couldn’t hear that.
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