It has been one of those weeks where some of us weren't entirely sure we'd make it, rather like the wonderful men and women from the London I.T. team who are with Ronke, in South Africa, trying to build some outbuildings for a township school. Tonight we have made it to Friday and you can see if they have made it too, albeit thousands of miles away.
Closer to home, a report from the Home Affairs Select Committee (stay awake at the back, there!) all of whom are white (don't get angry, stick with me) has tried to make sense of why so many young blacks get caught up in so much crime. I sat down with comic genius and social commentator Richard Blackwood, who is black and still young-ish, to ask for his thoughts. Worth tuning in for whatever your age or race... and there are some good driving tips, too.
Simon Webbe is black but was Blue - well part of Blue and is now solo: he has toured, provided a song for a movie and is watching his latest album make good progress. He is dropping in, live, so I don't know if he'll have any driving tips but he is a really nice guy and very talented.
As is James King: it is just his dress-sense that worries me, sometimes! He is here, as always on a Friday, to cast an informed yet discerning eye over this weeks big releases... including the movie Simon Webbe provided a song for.( Are you keeping up or still feeling angry about those MPs?)
Tamzin, in my view, is simply someone not to miss and, therefore, casts herself, irrevocably, in the role of purveyor of our What Not to Miss feature, a highlight of what you might consider doing this weekend. She doesn't share my view but does the work brilliantly, nevertheless.
As does Robin, magnificently if not a little surreally occasionally, with the weather.
It is Friday and it is all there, plus some.
See you at 6 with the delicious Ms Sylvester on my arm.
Alastair
