Bishop Tim Stevens
TIM STEVENS, FORMER BISHOP OF LEICESTER, TALKING ABOUT BEING AT A BISHOPS' CONFERENCE THAT DAY
"I was on that particular day at a meeting of the Bishops of the Church of England in Oxford, and it was the Bishop of London who interrupted the meeting and said, guess what, they think they've found Richard III under a car park!I also remember that we adjourned that evening to go to a communion service all the bishops, and I was standing in the church, and it came to the sharing of the peace of the Eucharist. And the Archbishop of York happened to be standing just behind me in the pew behind and I turned around and said, Peace be with you. And he said, "I'm having those bones, you know!""
SIMON DIXON, SPECIAL COLLECTIONS UOL, TALKING ABOUT BEING ASKED FOR A DISPLAY CASE FOR THE 2ND PRESS CONFERENCE
"And somebody phoned me up and said, "Oh, we're looking for a display case for something". And I said, "Oh, okay, we've got display cases, quite big though, and they're quite heavy. They're quite hard to move. What sort of size is it and what was it for?" I think I said, and I was told, "Can't really say". "Okay, what, how, how big do you want it to be?" And the answer came back, "About six foot long and three foot wide". And I thought, okay, there's something imminent!"
MATHEW MORRIS, DIG SUPERVISOR, TALKING ABOUT BEING INTERVIEWED BY BBC BREAKFAST BEFORE THE 2ND PRESS CONFERENCE
"So, I had to do BBC Breakfast News Live the following morning. And there was an argument in the University that perhaps I shouldn't do it because I might accidentally give stuff away. It was rubbish, I had great fun not giving stuff away to BBC Breakfast, but they were worried, and there had been a conversation that maybe I should be excluded from it. But (a) I put my foot down and said, No, it's my project and (b) I was the only one that understood all the PowerPoint slides, because they'd been trying to adapt one of my talks and mucked it up, so I knew what the results were anyway, because they were there on the slides, so it was a bit of an irrelevant thing anyway."
KEVIN SCHURER, HISTORIAN AND GENEAOLOGIST AND HISTORIAN, TALKING ABOUT THE 2ND PRESS CONFERENCE
"And I remember walking in there, obviously, we had a platform, or a stage and we all sat on this long table, and I remember looking up, and we knew that there would be press present. I counted 27 television cameras, all pointing in our direction, and then the... all the speakers were at the back with their whatever machinery and cameras and, God knows what, sound equipment, and then the rest of the audience were basically all press. There's never been an event... I don't know there's ever been an event like it. Certainly not in the history of the University of Leicester, probably rarely in the history of any University. It was a bit like a Higgs Bosun experience, if you know what I mean."
MATHEW MORRIS, DIG SUPERVISOR, TALKING ABOUT THE REACTION OF THE MEDIA AT THE END
"The bit that was really amazing was at the end of it, everybody in the room applauded, and then they all stopped, and you could see them all looking at each other, going, we're journalists, we don't applaud stuff. And you could sense that that was what they were thinking."
JOHN FLORANCE, FORMER RADIO PRESENTER, TALKING ABOUT WATCHING THE PRESS CONFERENCE AT RADIO LEICESTER
"Back in the station, we were all watching it on the television and listening to it, and I think everyone, by that time, knew what they were going to announce. I don't think there was any doubt about it, but it was lovely to have it confirmed, it really was, and we thought, right, we're on!"
