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21.12.07

London Tonight Tonight: Fri 21st Dec

London Tonight Tonight: Fri 21st Dec

Good afternoon.

"'Twas the night before"...

( the weekend before

the day before)...

"Christmas,

and all through the house,

not a creature was stirring,

not even a mouse".

BOO!

That'll wake the little darlings up, as will Mike Smith, in his mighty helicopter, swooping this way and that, hither and thither, to tell you what the traffic is like this "eve of Christmas" Friday, (allowing, once again, for the weekend and, indeed, for that pesky Monday).

Maybe it is that confusion which leaves 5% of Londoners saying they dread the whole thing. We've conducted a poll of you all to find out what fills your stocking and decks your halls this time of year. Fascinating results from how much you've budgeted, assuming you've budgeted, to what matters most to you Crimble-wise: producers and directors of nativity plays bring your kleenex... you are not going to be happy bunnies.

A very happy bunny is Stephen Gately, ex-Boyzone, now back in Boyzone, and in the West End. He drops in like Santa, full of joy and laden with the gifts of wit and repartee.

Unlike Youtube's favourite hit - a young woman who happens to look like Britney Spears. Worth a look according to zillions of people. We invite you to join them, briefly. Steve hits it, one more time.

More leisurely will be James review of the movies,, including the subject of America's most successful ever opening weekend: it is the stuff of legends. He also looks at Alvin and the Chipmunks which, if the other crits are anything to go by, he may regret. Up to you, as always.

As always, too, we have papers and Chrissie's weather - if she turns up. She was in black yesterday which worried me. Her total absence thus far today, clothed or not, suggests to me a real fear on her part that she might not get home again. I am fearful but, like you, will be there at 6 to discover the awful truth.

Finally a caroling treat from Westminster - not politicians, I promise you. But is it the Abbey or the Cathedral? Anglicanism or Holy Rome? It would be a sacrilege to tell you so you'll have to hang on in there for the very end. Bitter it won't be.

I made the right to do What Not to Miss my special Christmas gift to Salma. She was moved.

See you at 6.

Alastair and Salma.