Summer Expedition
The YSTV Summer Expedition was the brainchild of Jen Ayerst when she became Production Director in May 2004. The idea was to make a programme that showed freshers how much of a fun time we had socially as a station, whilst also giving us a holiday at the end of the academic year. A group of (mostly graduating) YSTV members had gone on a canal boat holiday in summer 2003, however this was not filmed and was not a YSTV event.
2004
The first summer expedition was to Dublin. YSTV members spent a weekUnverified or incomplete information in a hostel in the city centre, visiting a variety of places including the Guinness factory, a zoo (which many felt was a bit crap due to it having very few animals), and an old prison. They also saw a memorial to Oscal Wilde known as "the fag on the crag", another memorial to Dermot Morgan and an amazing pub that served pints of Smirnoff Ice. Jonathan commented on a stature commemorating the potato famine, "Where are all the potatoes?!". Ahem.
The programme was edited by Jen Ayerst and featured a Steve Walker computer generated title sequence.
2005
The second summer expedition was organised rather later than the first. With a short deadline, a few UK options were floated, before we decided on Rowan de Pomerai's suggestion of going to... Yorkshire! This was actually a very good idea as we'd save money by being able to sleep in our own beds every night, and see bits of the region we'd never got around to - such as a day in Scarborough, visits to the York Dungeon, Bradford's National Museum of Photography Film and Television, The Deep in Hull, York Minster, a boat trip down the Ouse and the York Brewery.
This programme was edited by Rowan de Pomerai and featured a popular title sequence which introduced the people by using unflattering video clips of them and a swanky black and white posterised sort of effect.
2006
The most recent summer expedition was a canal boat holiday - a week's cruise on the Four Counties Ring.
The crew consisted of Richard Ash, Dave Baker, Rob Humphrey, Rick Selby and Matthew Tole who were experienced canal cruisers; and Sarah Cheyne, Rowan de Pomerai, Kev Larkin, Sarah Leese and Ian Martindale who were more fresh-faced.
Starting and ending at Norbury, the crew took the ring on clockwise.
Notable moments included:
- Pirates on the first day
- Washing and styling Rob's hair
- Writing messages on an unsuspecting (and asleep) Ian's back in lipstick
- Matthew finding the 50% Vodka a little strong and revealing his PIN for his switch card
- Running out of water on more than one occasion...
- Nuts magazine, and the walrus
A standalone programme wasn't made from this holiday - instead short segments were included in Limited Edition, which were edited by Sarah Cheyne.