Here’s an unusual tale: The BBC recently suffered an IT meltdown, with the broadcaster’s computer and telephone network crashing while a newsreader was slithering into her seat to report current affairs for BBC Radio 3.Newsreader Alison Rooper was forced to act - and persuaded her newsdesk colleagues to email the script for the morning news headlines show, a script she then read using her iPhone, The Independent informs.It wasn’t an easy morning. Rooper got to Broadcasting House at 6.15am last Wednesday to present the hourly bulletins on the breakfast show. She soon found out about the system crash: phones weren’t ringing, computers
