A couple of weeks ago, I had the opportunity to visit the BBC in Media City, Salford to watch the Radio 3 show The Verb. Here’s how that day went…

We’d made arrangements to catch a train from the city centre at 11:16, which would take us to Manchester Piccadilly, where we could get a tram direct to Media City. It sounded simple enough, right? Well, maybe not. Despite going to the right platform (according to the board) and getting on the train that had been waiting there since before 11am, we realised 45 minutes into the train journey that we’d actually boarded the following train which left from the same platform.

Goodness only knows where our train was!

We arrived at Manchester Victoria at half twelve, so we were already half an hour behind. Then we had to figure out which tram route from there would be fastest, missing the…