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11.9.07

London Tonight Tonight Tuesday 11th September

London Tonight Tonight Tuesday 11th September
Good afternoon. I leave the tea-trolley to invite you to settle back and enjoy London Tonight at 6 with your favourite vittals.
For me, a Snicker bar and a cup of tea.
For the Big Boss, back from a very well earned holiday, a black coffee and a banana.
And there you have it: yin and yang, each according to his needs, each according to his abilities, all actions cause a reaction which is equal and opposite.
Balance.
Nature's equilibrium.
So why are 3000 police and security people needed to defend a defence fair? Can't weapons manufacturers defend themselves? And why do pacifists get into fights to protest against arms fairs? The action is at Excel in Docklands and Marcus is the man in full dress kit and nicely blanco-ed webbing.
Today is the sixth anniversary of 9/11, the most brutal example of murderously extreme differences, this side of the Second World War. But we bring you arms across the ocean, remembering the Brits and the Yanks who died in the Twin Towers: a Brit memorial in New York and a service in the heart of London.
 
What have Ozzy Osbourne, Amy Winehouse and Kate Moss got in common? No, apart from THAT... Stumped? They were at the same place at the same time last night. Still don't know? Well you'll just have to tune in at 6...
 
And then to my penultimate theme: multilingualism.
Given 300 languages are spoken in The Greatest City in The World, the scope is almost limitless.
Imagine "London Tonight", "Londres Ce Soir" or "Londra Sta Notte".
It offers syntactic stimulation, provides a communications conundrum, and culminates in cute cultural challenges: joy!
Until a railway company chances upon the chance to broaden its linguistic horizons - and promptly hits the buffers with the problem.
For First Great Western, only two languages are involved but they really have got their Cheap Day Savers in a twist.
Emma is the simultaneous translator.
 
Also another Mobo voting fest, Bobbies off the beat and On The Buses, plus London's papers and Chrissie's charts: what will Maidstone's UV Index be tonight? Two, Trois, Vier, Cinque?
A Roget's Thesaurus of delights... and All That Jazz (that's another clue by the way!..)

See you at six -
Alastair and Katie.