Cabbie Turns Cyber Expert on BBC

In a case of mistaken identity, the BBC interviewed a Cab driver for a tech show while the cyber expert was waiting just outside the studio. BBC realized the mistake and cut short the cabbie’s interview and later issued an apology.

A London cabbie suffered an awkward few moments of fame when the BBC mistook him for a computer expert and interviewed him live on the flagship News 24 channel, the corporation admitted on Saturday.

The real expert was Guy Kewney, a journalist specialising in computer issues who had been invited to comment on Apple Computer's legal battle with Apple Corps, the Beatles' music publishing company.

In fact, this 'expert' was the taxi driver who had come to collect Kewney after his interview. But as soon as he had arrived at the BBC building, an excitable assistant had bundled him into the studio and equipped him with a clip-on microphone before he had a chance to protest.

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