Maida Vale Studio 6

Third day in studio and all going very well. Such a brilliant, hard working cast & crew. I've taken a photo of the main studio at Maida Vale, but not able to upload it at the moment. This is the sign outside our studio, a lovely bit of '80s BBC branding.

The Maida Vale site is hallowed broadcasting ground:

"Built in 1909, Maida Vale Studios were orginally the home of the Maida Vale Roller Skating Palace and Club, seating 2,650 persons and proud possessor of its own orchestra balcony! In the 1930s it reinvented itself as one of the BBC's earliest premises, and was a standby centre of the BBC radio news service during the Second World War. Like Broadcasting House, the site had to be repaired after taking a direct hit during the London Blitz.

It is now the home of the BBC Symphony Orchestra, used for both performances and recordings of classical music. It can hold more than 150 musicians, a choir of over 100 and an audience of 220. Overall, the building houses a total of seven music and radio drama studios, and – outside its classical music remit – was most famously home to John Peel's BBC Radio 1 Peel Sessions, and the BBC Radiophonic Workshop (as used in the Doctor Who theme music)."

No wonder, then, that the atmosphere is electric!