Reunion on BBC1 London 'Inside Out' 7.30pm Weds 1st October

[Jo]

Hi all,
The story of the reunion will be on BBC1 'Inside Out' at 7.30pm on Wednesday...you can watch it if you live in London. If not it should be on their website from Wednesday onwards http://www.bbc.co.uk/insideout/london/
I really hope you like it, especially Huy, Diep and Paul. It was a rush job....they make the stories in 3 days (they had to give me an extra day!). I wish there was more about why you had to leave Vietnam but the bosses didn't seem to want to dwell on it....I suppose for 7.30pm on BBC1 they like to keep it not too political - (they put the heavier stuff on a bit later generally).
Thank you to everyone who was interviewed, filmed, involved.......
Some of you will recognise yourselves from the archive news footage by the way. I think Chi is the girl coming off the coach in London.....there is loads I didn't use, including footage of the Connells and Mike taking one of his photos, and Hieu being interviewed on the Wellpark. I wish I could have used more but 8 minutes was a very short time to fit everything in. Also I just heard BBCNews 24 are going to cut the story down to 2 minutes and show it on that channel too.
Cheers! Jo

[Mike Newton]

If you log on to BBCi Player you can watch Jo Wall's piece for the BBC about the recent reunion on Inside Out (London region) at 7.30pm on 1st October. It says, "The harrowing tales of the Vietnamese boat people who fled their country 30 years ago".
It will only remain on BBCi Player for a limited time after the programme (I think 7 days)
You can see mention of it in the centre of this page http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/tv/bbc_one/2008-10-01

[Jo]

Also for those of you in the UK...apparantly BBC Breakfast news want to run the story (a cutdown probably), so it might be all over the shop on Wednesday!

[Mike Newton]

Obviously with the depressing financial woes of the World at the moment they need a Good News Story to show!!!

[Paul Tran]

Sounds all good... great job Jo. Cheers.

[pat griffin]

unfortunately only those in the uk will be able to access iplayer.

[Mike Newton]

Hi Pat (in England),

I just checked out BBCi player. You are right. Unfortunately the programme will only be accessible in the UK.

Mike

[WiishCarol]

will this show be put on the Wellpark Reunion website? I don't think we can access it from the US.

[Jo]

Hi,
If you go to this website you should be able to view the latest edition of Inside Out via the web where it says 'View latest edition' http://www.bbc.co.uk/insideout/london/
I would have thought it would everywhere. Let me know if it doesn't.
Regards, Jo

[WiishCarol]

Thanks, Jo! I can check it out tomorrow and hopefully have some luck with it...or I might get VERY lucky and they will show it on BBCAmerica World news

[Paul Tran]

it should also be on youtube soon like the other episodes...

[pat griffin]

Just finished watching the film........far too short....but brilliant.

[Chi Pham]

Jo,
When I clicked on the link you mentioned http://www.bbc.co.uk/insideout/london/ I didn't see the video but show a nice write up with the heading "Vietnamese boat people" and a few pictures on it. I recognize one with me, Trang and Ha in one of the picture. All three of us were at the reunion. Did you write that article?