What is resilience made of?
I'd never seen anyone get the 'hairdryer treatment' until I worked with John Humphrys.
Picture the scene: me, hunched over an assortment of battleship grey knobs and dials in S1, a large, anonymous BBC studio, deep in the heart of a building shaped like a question mark, opposite Westfield shopping centre in Hammersmith.
Radio 4 had been booted out of Broadcasting House for a bit and it was here, at Television Centre, that I was schooled in…
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