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Now, today I have a very great privilege of being joined in a studio by a man who is equally at home fishing for Barbell on his local river as he is fishing for golden masts here in India.

And indeed, carp in the Colm Valley. Gary Newman, thank you very much for coming. Great to be here. In fact, thank you very much for crossing the corridor. It's not a long way. Yeah, because you do actually work for Corder, right? I do, yes. And you have, and we're going to come on to this in a bit, you have one of the craziest jobs in carp fishing. Can you just explain to us quickly what it is you do for a living?

Well, official titles TV production manager.

So it's basically organising all the monster carp shoots.

So choosing venues, obviously, along with Tom Dove and Neil Spooner between us.

And then arranging everything, sometimes going for a record trip,

just to see if they're suitable for filming on. And yeah, going from there, really. I think we've got Dovian Spooner banging on the ceiling, I think. Trying to remind you not to give too much away, but there's a little bit of work going on. So if you do hear the odd, the hot bang, we can't know anything about it. No, it's a busy time of year think what what what really fascinates me about the job that you've got now is that yes you organize the locations but this

means going and test fishing i mean it sounds like the dream job oh yeah so yeah not always but

um in terms of the fishing side but um, sometimes get to go and test venues.

Just to see, I mean, for filming, obviously, we need to be catching fish.

And it's not just about the fishing.

It's got to be suitable for filming as well, which, well, just talking about the noise there.

Things like that come into it.

I mean, obviously, rules, whether you can film within the rules of the venue you're going to.

Because it's logistically a massive project, just the amount of equipment we have with us.

If you've got a day-only venue, you can't be packing up at the end of every day,

setting up again the following day.

It's just not practical with the amount of the size of our team.

So, yeah, really, just seeing how suitable the places are for what we need.

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