BBC Presenter Tightrope Walks Across Battersea Power Station: Photos
USES for Battersea Power Station 101b: Props: BBC TeeVee presenter Helen Sketlon has walked on a rope between two of the chimneys at Battersea Power Station, that icon of empty powerlessness. She did it for Children In Need, the BBC’s telethon in which BBC employees you pay for get to do good deeds in the public eye on company time. But who cares for the vanity and the grandstanding so long as children benefit…
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Helen Skelton walks on a tightrope between two of the chimneys at Battersea Power Station, London. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Picture date: Monday February 28, 2011. The BBC children's television presenter said she was inspired by the documentary Man On Wire, which shows Frenchman Philippe Petit walking on a tightrope between the twin towers of New York's World Trade Centre in 1974. See PA story CHARITY Skelton. Photo credit should read: Sean Dempsey/PA Wire
Posted: 28th, February 2011 | In: TV & Radio Comment | TrackBack | Permalink
