Good afternoon.
This is a programme of the people, by the people and for the people. At our planning meeting there were so many stories of how the tube strike has effected our people that I really think we have a sense of how you must be suffering. Interesting, too, that, with two and a half lines working and the rest not, the impact on traffic has been totally unpredictable: I said getting from Waterloo to Holborn was fine once I'd been able to get a cab. Our director, Roger, said getting from Tower Bridge had taken over two hours. Faye, The Boss, came on a magic carpet, being as she is normally wafted from paradise.... at that point, Brendan, our news editor, said the tea-trolley had arrived and left the meeting. No spine.
Anyway, back to Day 2 of the Strike: talks were offered by the Receivers (the firm of accountants trying to rescue a functioning enterprise from the wreckage of what was Metronet): TfL said they'd turn up and the RMT said they'd be there, too.
Apart from Mr. Crow.
They are still talking, as I write, so we'll have the outcome, walkout or walk back, at 6.
This is a programme of the people, by the people and for the people. At our planning meeting there were so many stories of how the tube strike has effected our people that I really think we have a sense of how you must be suffering. Interesting, too, that, with two and a half lines working and the rest not, the impact on traffic has been totally unpredictable: I said getting from Waterloo to Holborn was fine once I'd been able to get a cab. Our director, Roger, said getting from Tower Bridge had taken over two hours. Faye, The Boss, came on a magic carpet, being as she is normally wafted from paradise.... at that point, Brendan, our news editor, said the tea-trolley had arrived and left the meeting. No spine.
Anyway, back to Day 2 of the Strike: talks were offered by the Receivers (the firm of accountants trying to rescue a functioning enterprise from the wreckage of what was Metronet): TfL said they'd turn up and the RMT said they'd be there, too.
Apart from Mr. Crow.
They are still talking, as I write, so we'll have the outcome, walkout or walk back, at 6.
From a standstill on the bulk of the tube, to a rocket-machine on the Paris to London super-track. The high-speed train now arriving at platform 7 at the beautiful new St Pancras terminus, broke the record for the fastest journey and, at over 200 mph, the record for the highest speed achieved by a scheduled train...... but still manged to be 10 years late.
All will be explained among the baguettes and burgundy at 6 by 'le grande controlleur', Mike Pearce.
A Zimbabwean refugee came to London and was made welcome. But he missed his native sweet corn "That's SUPER-sweet corn!" said Faye. (She is not only beautiful, she is really caring and a stickler for accuracy!) So he grew his own. And others liked it. So he rented a field and grew more.
This story has a brilliant punch-line and Damian is our Jolly Green Giant.
This story has a brilliant punch-line and Damian is our Jolly Green Giant.
What is the point of wasps? And why are there so many of them in and around London at the moment? Chrissie will take the sting out of that mystery.
And then we have the five thugs who broke into a house, having tried and rejected two other houses, only to rob and murder a man who was there on his tod. What was their real motivation? Marcus unravels that mystery, we hope.
And then we have the five thugs who broke into a house, having tried and rejected two other houses, only to rob and murder a man who was there on his tod. What was their real motivation? Marcus unravels that mystery, we hope.
Penultimately, "Unkle Jam" is the latest candidate for your Mobo judgment - Faye quite liked one of their songs and Raymond (who's here on work experience) said "it's ecclectic" . "Is that spelt with 2 "k"s", I asked... Unkcle Jam - 'ekklectic'?
No? Fine, forget it.
No? Fine, forget it.
Finally, Keira Knightley, live from Leicester Square. I have considered a motor bike taxi, a helicopter, even a James Bond jet-powered backpack - everything, but it can't be done.
So I will, with you, observe this vision of beauty, from the studio.
So I will, with you, observe this vision of beauty, from the studio.
Katie will be keeping me in order.
Atonement.
I can feel it coming.
Atonement.
I can feel it coming.
See you then.
Alastair & Katie
