Big show

As with the BBC News Olympic studios outside the park, the presentation side of things in the BBC studios inside the park is slightly more glamorous than backstage.

Meanwhile, reading between the lines of the BBC's Roger Mosey's blog about the tv coverage of Danny Boyle's Olympic opener, sound may be an issue. The trend is for modern stadia to have fearsomely loud public address systems - you can often hear tv commentators on lip mikes struggling against the stadium announcers at Wembley, Twickenham and The Emirates. The Underworld have been co-ordinating the music for Mr Boyle - one might suspect their ambition would be to pin spectators firmly back in their seats. In Roger's words "First, there's a particularly strong soundtrack in the stadium...."  and then later "We can also work out where the gaps are where comment is appropriate, and where the music should not be interrupted".  This suggests there might not be many places where Huw can make his bon mots heard.