Good afternoon.
Drugs have often featured in our programme and, frankly, in a pretty negative way. From the London girls in Ghana being jailed for trying to bring them here, to the debris of addicts' paraphernalia, littering our backstreets and stairwells. So, when I saw DRUGS was the title of our top story I thought what a sad start to the week. I will leave you to form your own reactions tonight but when I tell you it is about a charming lady in Bromley and involves a Primary Health Care Trust eventually doing the right thing, I believe you will be thrusting your fists in the air, victory-style. We bring tidings of great joy for Gillian Eames.
Drugs have often featured in our programme and, frankly, in a pretty negative way. From the London girls in Ghana being jailed for trying to bring them here, to the debris of addicts' paraphernalia, littering our backstreets and stairwells. So, when I saw DRUGS was the title of our top story I thought what a sad start to the week. I will leave you to form your own reactions tonight but when I tell you it is about a charming lady in Bromley and involves a Primary Health Care Trust eventually doing the right thing, I believe you will be thrusting your fists in the air, victory-style. We bring tidings of great joy for Gillian Eames.
Keeping his fists to himself tonight is the star of the Thriller in Manilla. I asked Faye if that was the bloke who also advertised griddles on TV and she said "No! That's the star of the Rumble in the Jungle!"
I had no idea such a delicate beauty would know so much about heavyweight boxing. My mum was one of the grapple fans who used to enjoy Kent Walton and the Saturday afternoon wrestling but she, like most, was a middle aged woman. Faye, so young and lovely, into big men with boxing gloves at the ends of their arms? Very troubling. Anyway, Joe Frazier gives his take on curbing youth crime but not a blow is struck outside the target area. Phil wants a clean fight and calls seconds away at 6.
A young Watford football star thinks his treatment is far short of a clean fight: he faces extradition back to his native Sierra Leone where they wanted him to be a tribal chief. When he said he didn't want to do that and did a runner instead, they got seriously nasty about it. What faces him if he is "sent-off" in a pretty drastic way by HM Immigration Services, at 6.
My Uncle Jack and Auntie Chrissie lived, for years, in a pre-fab in Letchworth. He always used to go to the pub before lunch, saying he was just going "to get some change". It was a mystery to me as a child but I think Auntie Chrissie knew what he was really up to because she seemed so happy when he fell asleep, after lunch. Anyway, sad to say, their pre-fab outlived them. Odd, that, for homesteads that were only a temporary move after the war. "Not so", say the good folk of Catford: "We've got some too that are still alive and occupied!" Emma put on her A line frock, permed her hair and danced down to Catford to the strains of Glen Miller.
Priceless, as indeed will be the reaction of our eventual winners of the People Millions: two contestants tonight and, remember, you get to play Santa Claus when all the runners and riders have been revealed.
Jools Holland reveals how wide is the range of his musical taste and his musical mates. On one album, Tom Jones, Suggs and JK, of Jamiroquai fame, to mention but three! Jools joins us live.
Live, or not, the woman who did the announcements on the tube that keep you safe but drive you mad at the same time, has been naughty. A case of mind your manners more than mind the doors, I think!
Oyster cards at the ready and we won't be limited to Zone One, I can tell you.
See you at 6.
Alastair & Katie
P.S. sorry about Friday's blog: someone lost the keys.
