Good afternoon.
The Big Boss is back from ill-health. Hurrah, we bellowed and it echoed to the rafters. Yesterday and Wednesday, my dear friend Ken, the man who knows more than you need to know about West Ham, was in charge and did a fine job I hope you will agree. One problem. Ken is not as familiar with our electronic means of communications as is The Big Boss. While the BB can put Bill Gates to shame, Ken still thinks Clive Sinclair and Alan Sugar are responsible for the Best Buys on the Shelf... that is why you didn't get your regular dose of our London Tonight Tonight ramblings : apologies.
No apologies for tonight's show: Nick reports on the nasty piece of work who couldn't wait for his inheritance so just took it, even though it put his dear mum at severe risk. Two things we think will hold you glued to our show are exactly what he did at his mum's expense and the amount of jail time the Courts thought would be appropriate to punish him. You will want to take up our invitation, me thinks, to express your views, electronically. Ken, on a day off, may drop us a line and pop it in the post.
Popped in the post, some fifty or sixty years ago, were the first ever "flat-pack" houses and, by air mail, they winged their way to Africa. Why and where they were found, riddled with bullets, and where, precisely, they have ended up back here in London, will have your eyes on springs, I'm sure. Damian is our man of international intrigue at IKEA.
No intrigue over our compelling fest of emotionally and artistically rewarding things you may chose from to do this weekend. Salma says "Possession is nine tenths of the Law" and she has changed the locks on the file marked What Not to Miss. It may be my age but I have given up.
Just starting out is David Jordan. He has talent, he has a world-famous hit producer working with him and he is managed by one of the true giants of the last thirty years of pop music. Who they are and why he is going to be massive, with Nick.
Probably not massive will be the film Underdog about which Salma expressed the sort of degree of interest I have caught in my children's eyes when they know it is time to visit the dentist. Cloverfield, on the other hand, could chill you to satisfied oblivion. Why not join us for James' take on them:Salma may be wrong - but who am I - isolated, ignored and undervalued- to say?
When it was planned, approved and constructed, many said the Thames Barrier might prove to be isolated, an eyesore and over-valued. It's backers proved them all wrong when, 25 years ago today, it swung into action less than a year after it's completion and a year before it's formal, Regal opening. Chrissie sings it;'s praises and explores if it will be needed this weekend - I think it would make a terrific wind-break!
We open at 6.
See you there, I hope.
Alastair and Salma... ( love her, really.)
