{"id":340,"date":"2007-03-08T15:07:00","date_gmt":"2007-03-08T21:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/?p=340"},"modified":"2007-03-08T15:07:00","modified_gmt":"2007-03-08T21:07:00","slug":"question-time-mentorn-wins-furniture-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/2007\/03\/question-time-mentorn-wins-furniture-contract\/","title":{"rendered":"Question Time: Mentorn wins furniture contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcaps\">P<\/span>eople often ask me &#8211; What do I have to do to win a current affairs commission? My answer is always simple and direct: build portable seating.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The offer to construct portable seating was also understood to have impressed BBC executives considering bids from Mentorn and three other shortlisted independent production companies. [<a href=\"http:\/\/media.guardian.co.uk\/broadcast\/story\/0,,2029336,00.html\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">MG<\/span><\/a>]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Now if only   <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">Sofa Workshop<\/span> had headhunted Steve Anderson they could have been in with a chance&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:bold;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mentorn.co.uk\/News\/?id=24\">Mentorn<\/a><\/span> &#8211; whatever their woes &#8211; have gone on producing a no-nonsense, straightforward successful programme with <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">David Dimbleby<\/span>. Why on earth not just recognise &#8211; for once &#8211; that if it ain&#8217;t broken, it don&#8217;t need fixing?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People often ask me &#8211; What do I have to do to win a current affairs commission? My answer is always simple and direct: build portable seating. The offer to construct portable seating was also understood to have impressed BBC executives considering bids from Mentorn and three other shortlisted independent production companies. [MG] Now if [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[15],"class_list":["post-340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-bbc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}