Brian Barron

We walked off the plane at the old airport in Hong Kong, Kai Tak Airport.

And the producer was there holding up a copy of the South China Morning Post saying, scores or maybe it was hundreds killed in Tiananmen Square I thought my god I thought I'd be going up there but you know the the grown-ups were already up there there's a guy called Brian Barron was there who I was a great admirer of John Simpson was there Kate Adie these were all the names to conjure with when I was 20 odd years older than me and and so Brian actually Brian Barron we spoke on the phone he said look Jeremy I know you want to come up here but frankly we'll monster you stay in hong kong for about a week you'll have your own story i was really disappointed but actually he was quite right because there were massive demonstrations in hong kong and then i went to shanghai and then i went to to beijing and it was and i was there for weeks and weeks i mean best part of a couple of months and that was on about two hours notice

did you have enough pants

You can always buy things like that.