When Train Journeys Go Horribly Wrong
11:30 pm - 01:05 am, Sunday, April 12 on 5 +1 (38)
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About this Broadcast
John Sergeant narrates a selection of first-hand accounts of nightmare trips on the railway, including passengers stuck on a train that lost power on the hottest day of the year, leaving them without air conditioning in the 38C heat. Plus, the driver whose quick reactions helped save the lives of his passengers when his high-speed train hit a lorry on a level crossing, and the pandemonium underground when a London Tube carriage filled with smoke
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John Sergeant
(Narrator)
Shayan Scott
(Director)
Elaine Hackett
(Executive producer)
Simon Withington
(Executive producer)
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Did You Know..
John Sergeant
(Narrator)
Born:
April 14, 1944
in
London
Best Known For:
His time as a political reporter.
Early-life:
Born 14 April 1944 in Oxford. He is the son of a distinguished linguist, and has Russian Jewish ancestry on his mother's side. John attended Millfield School in Somerset before going to Oxford University, where he participated in student comedy revues. After graduating he appeared in On the Margin with Alan Bennett for the BBC. Shortly after this he decided to divert his attention to journalism and began studying at Darlington College while working at the Liverpool Echo.
Career:
Sergeant joined the BBC as a radio reporter in 1970. He worked on the International desk, covering stories in over 25 countries. He then has a spell as a war reporter before becoming a political correspondent in 1981. Between 1992 and 2000 he was the BBC's Chief Political Correspondent before defecting to ITN. After his retirement from journalism in 2002, Sergeant began to flex the comedic muscles that he exhibited at university with appearances on Have I Got News for You and Strictly Come Dancing. His appearance among the glitz and glamour of Strictly sent viewers into a fervent frenzy, but quit the competition after claims it diminished the integrity of the show. Since then he has helmed Argumental, a comedy debating game, reported for The One Show and featured in several travelogues.
Quote:
On bowing out of Strictly Come Dancing: 'It's like when you decide when you leave a party, and the time to leave a party is before the fight starts, and I think that's really what's happened on this occasion.'
Trivia:
He witnessed Martin Luther King's 'I have a dream' speech in Washington.
Shayan Scott
(Director)
Elaine Hackett
(Executive producer)
Simon Withington
(Executive producer)
