‘Police surrounded the studio one night because they thought somebody had a gun and was going to shoot Terry Christian’
Channel 4 asked me to make a youth arts show called Club X but it was a disaster. I told them: “Young people don’t watch arts programmes. Let me do something entertainment-based: a mix of celebrity interviews, cool music and quirky global stories, all in a crazy live format. A show for young people, made by young people.” When they said OK, I got a team together and The Word was born.
