Pop Shield

The parting of a celebrity and their mobile phone is a traumatic moment.  But all guests at a radio station have to go through this step. Most opt to leave it with a minder in the control room. Others take it in but turn it to silent or off.

Our guest this morning is wild-eyed, wild-haired, comic monitor lizard Buzz Bailiff, who adopts a typical leftfield approach.

“Paranoid about the phone!” he exclaims, walking straight into the studio.  “Yes, take it apart!“ he says, proceeding to dismantle the phone to render it powerless.   “Aha! That should do it!” he pronounces, separating front from back from battery and laying the three pieces on the desk in front of him.  “Ha ha! Won’t go off now!“

For the period of the interview, Buzz looks not into the eyes of our jaunty Irish host, but at the three pieces of mobile phone which he lines up in parallel then reverts around each other, always in straight lines, tessellating wildly throughout.