We may be doing the programme from
Westminster tonight because of the power problems at TVC (see "Oddly"). Decision due shortly.
1545 UPDATE: The engineers are working hard and think the patch-job that's holding everything together right now will hold. So we're staying at TV Centre.
1640 UPDATE: There is a plan. If the power goes off, I will go to the radio car that sits outside the window, and send a signal to Westminster who will broadcast the recorded bits of the show. Or something.
Oh joy! the ´óÏó´«Ã½ helicopter takes off from Television Centre, piloted by Rupert Altman, co-pilot Eddie Mair, heading towards the heights of Millbank.
Hope you get there safe and sound, Eddie!
never mind tonights content I'm tuning in for the drama! :)
Just teasing, sure it'll all be fine and dandino.
Frugs to all the team ((( x )))
Oh, this is so exciting.
Lead item, Eddie and Rupert?
wow...eddie 'as got a chopper?
I'm sorry - I don't believe you, Its all a put up job to gain a bit of sympathy after last week. The photos don't show ´óÏó´«Ã½ staff , they are in fact randomly chosen members of the public who thought they were coming to a recording of Just A Minute.
'Engineers working hard' Now whos pulling whos plonker?
16:50 UPDATE
There's a police chopper hovering outside as i type, and my river's risen several feet since last night, and there's more to come.
So this listener may well also get into the waiting car outside and drive to westminster (or somewhere...!)
n-n
xx
PS I have a real car, with petrol and everything, not just one of your tiny 'radio' controlled cars, eric!!!
Oooh-er, n-n, do take care.
I thoroughly approve of those UK middle and upper class lineages doing manual work in Africa (Cameron's African jolly jaunt) but why in Rwanda.
Their responsibilities and how much they owe would be better met if they went to Zimbabwe, Kenya or Nigeria.
And for a few weeks? No, for a few generations, as directed labour.
How else (along with the rest of that ilk doing the manual work here) can those lineages properly repay their intergeneratinal debts and how else should we allocate the worst sorts of manual work?
Pass out the shovels to 'em
Mac (9),
I agree with the theory, but as the great grandson of slave owners, I hope it remains a hypothetical exercise.
xx
ed