Michael Blastland
speaker
745 appearances
4 recordings
1 series
first heard Mar 2011
last heard Aug 2011
Michael Blastland’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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We could have tried to organise it ourselves, so we're going to find out why we don't.
Hi.
Can you tell me who's in charge of bread for Cambridgeshire?
We'd better go and have a chat with Michael and find out if he is in charge.
Thanks.
Oh, could I have a gingerbread man?
Well, we've just left a very perplexed shop assistant, rightly perplexed, actually.
It was a very stupid question, although not completely stupid, because there were various economies in the past.
The Soviet Union is the one that most obviously springs to mind, where they really did try to plan the delivery and the organisation of all these economic activities.
So we've come up to the main bakery to see Michael Todd, who's the commercial director.
Michael, are you in charge of bread production for Cambridge?
Well, that would be very nice, wouldn't it?
But we like to think we're a relatively decent-sized company supplying bread into Cambridge, but we're certainly not the only suppliers.
We've talked a little bit about other kinds of regimes, like how we organise an economy in the Soviet Union, or how they used to, at least.
One of the questions that kind of dumbfounded people around that time was, how much should you make?
It's a very good question.
We'll start off in the morning making to an estimate, but with regards to our customers, our customers tend to place their orders for next day delivery.
So come half past two, three o'clock, we will know exactly how many loaves of bread we need to make for tomorrow's delivery.
I asked Michael if he knew how to cultivate yeast.
No, he said a little sheepishly, but why should he?
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