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Midnight Meets With Colin Murray

Dotun Adebayo

Midnight Meets With Colin Murray

BBC

Personal Journals, Society & Culture

4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 3 November 2021

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

The Night Watchman, Dotun Adebayo, reflects on moving to the UK from Nigeria, acting alongside Christopher Lee in a Hammer House of Horror movie, and his special relationship with his overnight audience, which spans an incredible two decades. Midnight Meets is part of Colin Murray’s BBC Radio 5 Live show which is on Monday to Thursday, 10.30pm to 1am – or available whenever you want via the BBC Sounds app.

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0:00.0

Before you listen to this BBC podcast, I'd like to tell you why I love podcasting.

0:04.5

I'm Sasha Johansson, I'm an Assistant Commissioner for the BBC,

0:08.1

and I work on making podcasts. My real passion is discovering unbelievable

0:14.3

unheard stories and working with the biggest stars who can really bring those stories to life.

0:20.0

I love the whole process of making podcasts from the spark of an idea to hearing the final edit.

0:26.4

There's nothing like it.

0:27.6

What makes BBC podcast special is that we're working for you,

0:31.0

so whatever we commission has to reflect the things that you care about and love,

0:34.9

wherever you are in the UK. So if you like this BBC podcast, there's so much more to discover.

0:40.4

Have a listen on BBC Sounds.

0:42.1

BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts.

0:55.6

Hello and welcome to another Midnight.

0:58.0

Meets, before we go any where our little podcast we put out as part of our

1:02.2

Monday to Thursday 10, 30pm to 1am, are we show on BBC Radio 5 Life?

1:07.6

We've had like over a quarter of a million downloads, so thank you to everybody who

1:11.0

listens in the podcast. Do come and visit us on the main show, because we do so much more than

1:15.3

just this long form interview, but we're intensely proud of it, and this one as much as any,

1:20.9

if not more, because it's with one of our own, it's with the night watchman,

1:25.2

the man who's been keeping his company overnight, some BBC Radio 5 Life, for two decades,

1:31.3

and the Marcus 20th anniversary, I asked Don't Add a Bial not only to do a Midnight Meet,

1:37.7

but to do it live on air, no editing, no working in clips, it just starting and I gabbing away.

1:45.1

It was so much fun, and it was so interesting to hear stuff about,

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