The fourth episode of a new chat show presented by regional television personality Mike Neville. In this programme Mike speaks with Coronation Street star and Tynemouth born actress Denise Welsh and Britian’s most successful high altitude climber Alan Hinkes. Title: The Mike Neville Show To the applause of the studio audience presenter Mike Neville comes out on to the stage and introduces the programme describing his first guest an actress whose career has really taken off in recent years...

The fourth episode of a new chat show presented by regional television personality Mike Neville. In this programme Mike speaks with Coronation Street star and Tynemouth born actress Denise Welsh and Britian’s most successful high altitude climber Alan Hinkes. Title: The Mike Neville Show To the applause of the studio audience presenter Mike Neville comes out on to the stage and introduces the programme describing his first guest an actress whose career has really taken off in recent years and is currently appearing in the nations favourite soap opera. A clip from an episode of Coronation Street featuring Northeast born Denise Welsh. Coming out on stage she takes a seat beside Mike and talks about her character in the show Natalie Horrocks and what she saw in Kevin Webster with whom she is having an affair. She talks about the challenges of being recognised in the street and about what it has been like being part of an institution and getting to know the rest of the cast. She talks about the challenges of organising her life being away from her home in Newcastle working in Manchester where Coronation Street in filmed. With both her husband fellow Northeast actor Tim Healy sitting in the audience beside her sister Debbie and parents Vin and Ann Welsh, Denise talks about being married to a fellow actor and the challenges of being away from home a lot for work. She is asked what she misses most about the Northeast, she replies the people and her family. She talks about her son Matthew and the challenges he has faced having a famous mother, but there are also perks. Bringing the interview to a close Mike states that after the break he will be speaking with mountaineer and filmmaker Alan Hinkes. Title: The Mike Neville Show Explaining that his next guest Alan Hickes has climbed nearly all the world’s highest mountains Mikes state for the past few years he has the pictures to prove it. A clip from a Tyne Tees Television series The Death Zone featuring Alan reaching the summit of Lhotse, the world fourth highest mountain on the Nepal-Tibet border. Coming into the studio Alan takes a seat beside Mike and talks about this four-part series in which he attempts to set a world record by climbing six peaks over 8000m in less than a year. He also provides details on Challenge 8000 in which he will try to be the first Britian to climb all fourteen 8000m mountains. He talks about the many attempts it took to complete so-far nine and how to him there are no failures as he came down alive. He explains to Mike why he was known as ‘chapati-man’ and how he got into filmmaking during the 1990s. Another clip from an episode of The Death Zone filmed by Alan of him crossing an ice bridge. Back in the studio he talks about the added challenge of also having to film himself. On being asked what a key attribute for high-altitude climber is, he replies ‘suffering’. Joining the conversation Denise asked Alan how he started and were there times when he was terrified. He is also asked his opinion of women climbers following the death of Alison Hargreaves in 1995. Bringing the interview to an end Alan talks about his future plans post-Challenge 8000 which he hopes to have completed by the end of the century. Bringing the programme to an end Mike thanks his guests as well as the studio audience and details on next week’s programme where he will be joined by two of the regions sporting heroes British Lion and England rugby international Rob Andrew and Olympic Three-Day Eventer Karen Dixon. Title: The Mike Neville Show Credit: Title Music Alan Clark Floor Manager Herbie Newton Vision Mixer Tony Barber Cameras Simon Elphinstone Jimmy JIB Operator Ken Moulson Sound Mixer Dave Wealleans Lighting Director John Mason Production Co-ordinator Sarah Howie Production Manager Barbara Buglass Research Gaye Slater Designer Tim Trout Executive Producers Peter Mitchell, Malcolm Wright Producer Jo Mapplebeck Series Producer Keith Cheetham Director Tony Kysh Title: A Zenith North production for Tyne Tees Television. © Tyne Tees Television MCMXCVIII End title: A Tyne Tees Television programme for Channel 3 North East