Dragon's Den - Behind The Scenes
In Show 84, we catch up with Glen from EcoSense about his experience inside the Dragon's Den. He reveals a couple of lesser-known facts about the TV series. Here's a transcript.
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Pete:
OK, now we have to play this little bit of audio. This is fascinating. The final stop on our tour at Gadget Show Live in December was a chap called Glen, who if anyone listened to our little update that we put out between the December and the January show, will know someone here not a million miles away from me was asked out on a date in the middle of an interview.
Kelly:
It wasn't a date! - I still stick by this; it wasn't a date. It was a friendly drink, and you were coming too!
Pete:
OK, just for the listeners' benefit, let me remind you:
Gadget Show Live in London has come to the end. How's your day been?
Kelly:
It has been fantastic, and exhausting.
Pete:
So what have you found that's - oh, look - here he is!
Glen:
Has it got any better for you, sweetness?
Kelly:
It has.
Glen:
And where are we going for a drink after?
Kelly:
I don't know - where are we going?
Glen:
Where do you want to go?
Kelly:
Anywhere.
Glen:
Come to The Fox for a drink?
Kelly:
Yeah.
Glen:
Come on - let's do it.
Kelly:
Let's do it.
Glen:
Come on, then.
Kelly:
OK.
Pete:
Definitely a date!
Kelly:
It really wasn't a date! You make this sound so much worse. Glen, I'm so sorry, if you're listening to this.
Pete:
OK, well Glen was at the Gadget Show selling a Christmas tree that snowed. One of his other products that he'd worked on in the past was an air conditioning solution, that as you walked away from the air conditioning, would switch itself off to save electricity. Clever stuff - as it happens, Glen took that to the Dragons' Den, and we've got a rather exclusive little peek behind the scenes at Dragons' Den - this was fascinating, wasn't it?
Kelly:
Absolutely fascinating - I love it. It's one of the best interviews we've done, I think.
Pete:
So if you're into Dragons' Den, here is Glen from Eco-Sense, giving us a bit of a feel for what goes on behind the scenes at the Den.
Glen:
Probably one of the most bizarre things about it, which not a lot of people know, is you know obviously you've got a set of stairs that you come up to into the Den - those stairs don't exist. In the actual Den where the Dragons are, there's about three steps. You have to pretend that you're walking up steps to get in there. The whole set of stairs themselves are actually in a completely separate studio, which is quite bizarre.
Pete:
So how long does the process take? - obviously on air, we see sort of two or three minutes of heavily-edited stuff. How long does it really take in the Den?
Glen:
I mean, I think from application to filming, it was about seven months. The day we filmed ours, there was a couple of guys in there that thought they had a good idea, bless them, but you also knew that they had been put there to poke a little bit of fun at, which I don't think's particularly fair. They're harsh in there, but they like to think they're fair. I got my products, the exposure I wanted, so it was win-win for me.
Pete:
Of course, that wasn't the Christmas tree - that was something else, wasn't it?
Glen:
Yeah, that was another product called Eco-Sense, which, luckily for us, since it was on Dragons' Den, has gone global, and is now a huge, huge brand, and has done really, really well. Deborah Meaden made two offers when we were in the Den, and unfortunately the short, sharp answers that she didn't want to hear didn't go down too well, so they got edited out of the programme, but you know, it's one of them things.
Pete:
I'll never look at Dragons' Den the same way.
Kelly:
Quite disappointing, isn't it, really? - you never want to know the truth.
Pete:
We've removed the fourth wall of TV there.
Transcript continues: Ham and Hitchhikers: Kelly Challenge Update
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