Naga Munchetty was forced to halt her interview with a guest on BBC Breakfast.
The presenter was hosting Breakfast with Charlie Stayt on Friday (June 21), but unfortunately, things didn’t quite go to plan. They had to halt their interview with a guest because of some tech-related turbulence.
The pair were discussing how life-changing cystic fibrosis drugs will become available for NHS patients in England. They tried to interview guest Craig Jones, who has the condition, via video link.
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However, tech issues made it impossible to hear him speak. Craig was trying to explain how the drug he takes for the condition has improved his life, Naga had to interrupt him.
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She said: “Craig – bear with me Craig. Sorry to interrupt, but we have a bit of a problem with your line and we are not hearing you clearly. I don’t want to do you or our viewers a disservice. We will come back to you, we will just reestablish your line.”
Naga tried to speak with some other guests, the Broad family, about the condition Parents Kayleigh and Dale appeared live from Portsmouth with their sons Mikey and baby Jasper who suffer from the illness.
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But the baby started getting upset as his mother was speaking, so Dale had to take him out of the room so she could be heard properly. Charlie said: “Okay, we are looking at your domestic arrangements – and the baby is a bit noisy so dad has jumped off out of the way.”
Luckily, they were able to resolve the technical issues and chat to Craig, who highlighted how access to the cystic fibrosis drugs massively improves his and his family’s life for the better. Naga poked fun at their previous tech drama.
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She joked that they were escorting some “tech gremlins” out of the building. She said: “Craig, I’m glad we got to talk to you, eventually, and get the technical gremlins kicked out of the building.”
Cystic fibrosis is a genetic disorder which clogs the lungs with abnormally thick mucus. Prior to 2019, there was no effective treatment on the NHS available to sufferers.
There are more than 11,000 sufferers in the UK. Daily Express launched a campaign in February 2019 to make the drugs available to patients on the NHS and now three drugs by US pharma giant Vertex – Orkambi, Symkevi and Kaftrio -are available to UK patients.
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