Hello there, welcome to the start of another week of the Levy Letter and I hope you had a good weekend, whatever you were up to. This morning, as I write this, bright and early well its not really bright and early, its grey and early at Victoria Dock. Its always quite good, isnt it, to know that when you have to go back to work on a Monday, its grey and miserable after the weekend was so beautiful. The other great thing about this time of the year, if you live anywhere near the water, is the extremes of the tide. This morning its really high and I noticed this yesterday, it was a really low tide. Anyway I digress. I hope your weekend was good whatever you were up to.
Stepping Out I had a drive to Lincoln on Saturday to see the play Stepping Out at the Theatre Royal. Over the last few weeks, Ive interviewed quite a few members of the cast, Anita Harris - I remember her from the sixties, still going strong a remarkable lady. Shes in it and also Vicki Michelle from Allo Allo and also the lovely Sue Hodge. Excellent play and the Theatre Royal was full to the rafters on Saturday night, so if you went, I hope you enjoyed it. Tonight I hope you will join me tonight for Look North as usual. As well as the days news, tonight I shall be talking antiques. The presenter of Bargain Hunt will be joining me on the programme. By the way this week, Bargain Hunt live is coming from a different location and today its coming from Grantham and well be talking about that a little later on. And by the way the programme, the Antiques Roadshow, which was recorded at Normanby Hall with Michael Aspel back in June will be on any day now. And talking of television programmes, Friday of this week at 8.30pm there will be a programme called Outtake TV with Anne Robinson and theres a quick snatch from Look North on this Fridays programme, if you want to make a note of that this Friday night, BBC One at 8.30pm. Thanks Thanks very much for all your emails over the past week. Theres been plenty of them! Lots on the subject of situation comedy as well, after I mentioned last week about remakes of TV comedies after listeners, well readers of the Radio Times, suggested the comedy they would like to see remade is Fawlty Towers. People have written in to say it would be a terrible mistake, which of course it would be. But thank you for all the emails on that and of course and indeed on all the other subjects. And on suggesting guests - I had numerous suggestions, still Bryan Ferry comes out on top. I will try and get Bryan on the programme if I can. But thank you for all the suggestions. If you want to drop me a line as usual, my direct email address is [EMAIL PROTECTED] Let me know your suggestions for who youd like to see on the sofa, or indeed anything else, Id like to hear from you. DIY I was interested to read this morning, that one of the largest chains of DIY shops in the country is shutting down 22 of its large warehouse stores as apparently were getting disenchanted with tackling jobs around the house ourselves and are thinking now that they are better left to the tradesmen I have to say Ive always left them to the tradesmen, being myself completely useless at DIY! But sales fell over the last six months with this particular chain and they warn that the situation is continuing to go downhill. Theres a bit of a backlash against DIY and home makeovers. Its believed that women who take on many of the DIY tasks have been put off and also the demise of the BBCs Changing Rooms and similar TV shows which enthused millions to take up paintbrushes and drills is also to blame lets blame the BBC, oh sorry lets blame television!! Texting I have seen that weve been sending more texts than ever before. It does make you wonder how we managed before there were mobile phones and before we could text. I remember the first time I worked out how I could send a text, and it doesnt seem that long ago and now we send millions of them every year. Even the Queen has got on to the band wagon by sending Harry a text for his birthday! LL Dont forget if theres someone you know who would appreciate a daily email from me, get them to sign up for their daily Levy Letter. As ever all you need to do is go to one of the two addresses at the bottom of the screen and just sign up. If you want to tell friends and family about that, then thats excellent! Thank you very much. Blood Brothers I mentioned a moment ago about going to the theatre on Saturday night to see Stepping Out and tonight is the night that Blood Brothers opens at the New Theatre in Hull. Its one of the biggest musicals still running in the West End its been on for 18 years! A variety of people have played the lead role of Mrs Johnstone, including Kiki Dee and Barbara Dickson. Well tonight the show opens in Hull, and when we had the competition in the Levy Letter a couple of weeks ago to win tickets, there was a huge response. On stage tonight playing the part of Mrs Johnstone is Linda Nolan, so if youre going this week then do enjoy. Hopefully later in the week, Ill be going backstage to see some of the new refurbishments in the theatre while its been closed through the summer and have a look round, but more on that later in the week. Caught Out I always remember a few years back now, when I was doing a little television programme behind a desk with one other person, when the music was playing after we said goodnight and I turned around to the person I was with and said something like, that didnt go too well did it, or words to that effect. And I always remember someone pointing out to me that you should never really say that even though the microphones closed because theres always somebody who can lip read watching the TV and you dont want to be caught out! So I had to laugh, my word its had some coverage this last day or two - a scrawled note that President George Bush passed to Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice at the United Nations summit and hed scribbled on a bit of paper I think I may need a bathroom break, is that possible? But some paparazzi with a very sharp expensive lens managed to pick this up. As youve probably seen by now its made all the papers. Talk about being caught out! Its a les! son to us all. Any more stories about being caught out in your particular job or work then do let us know. Ive got a friend whos a doctor and I think doctors have their own language, although I cant give you an example right now, but they certainly have their own terminology I think. Car Sticker Every couple of weeks or so, I like to remind you about the Look North car stickers. They are quite snazzy! And every time I see one of them in a car, it reminds me, Ive just seen another one just last night when I was driving through the centre of Hull. If youd like your own Look North car sticker then send a reasonably large stamped self-addressed envelope to the usual address, BBC Look North, Queens Court, Queens Gardens, Hull, HU1 3RH. And Ill send you one off. If youve not got your car sticker then Ill send you one. Well thats it for today. Id better get on with some work. Join me tonight if you can - 6.30pm BBC One for all the days news. Paul will be with me with the weather as ever. And as I said well be going behind the scenes of the TV show Bargain Hunt. Ill see you at 6.30pm . Bye for now! Peter And for the latest news and more where you live, go to: http://bbc.co.uk/humber and http://bbc.co.uk/lincolnshire ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the BBC Look North newsletter, go to http://www.bbc.co.uk/england/looknorthhull/newsletter/newsletter_index.shtml, enter your email address in the unsubscribe box.
