Hello, its Peter here and welcome to Mondays Levy Letter. I hope your weekend was good. Whatever you were up to then I hope it went well. The start of another week together. I hope youll be able to join me tonight and every night on BBC1 at 6.30pm.
This evening, as well as all the days news, Lisa will have the weather forecast. Amongst our guests this week, well be talking to Sir Bernard Ingham tomorrow on the programme. Granthams most famous daughter, Baroness Thatcher celebrates her 80th birthday on Thursday this week. There is a party the Queen and the Prime Minister will be among those to pay tribute to the former Prime Minister. There are many other people on the guest list including Shirley Bassey and Sir Tim Rice and also Lord Lloyd Webber. Well, tomorrow I shall be talking to Sir Bernard Ingham, former press secretary to Margaret Thatcher ahead of her 80th birthday, and also on the day that Sir Bernard Ingham visits Grimsby. Sir Bernard will be on the programme tomorrow, but in the meantime join me tonight at the usual time, BBC1 6.30pm. Art I know precious little about painting and art. In fact you could write all my knowledge of art on a postcard. The only thing I do know about is David Hockney, of course a Yorkshire man. David now lives in Los Angeles, but all his work is hanging in a gallery, a former mill in Bradford - Salts Mill at Saltaire. Its a beautiful place, if youve ever been to West Yorkshire. If youve been then youll know what Im talking about. If not, then its well worth a visit to Salt Mill. I was reading in the paper that David, whose sister of course lives in Bridlington, says he wants to paint England. He says in an interview with the Sunday Times Yorkshire is so peaceful. East Yorkshire is like California. Thats what he says! East Yorkshire is like California you get big skies with amazing light. Most people think that East Yorkshire just seems rather plain, but look closer and youll see very beautiful forms. I think the one thing about the sky here is that its just sensational. I think its because of the lack of buildings. Just looking across the river here to the other side of the water is proof of that. Anyway, David Hockney speaking up for East Yorkshire. He says its just like California. If you do get to West Yorkshire anytime, the Gallery at Salts Mill at Saltaire is well worth a visit. Countdown As you know, back in the summer, there was the sad sad news of the death of Richard Whiteley. Richard was a lovely man, and a good friend and he died in June of this year. Well, there was much talk after Richards untimely death as to whether Countdown would continue or not. Its been a hugely popular programme for years and years and has been made in Yorkshire since the start of Channel 4. Well after many rumours, the new host is going to be the smooth talking sports star Des Lynam. Des is about to record some more episodes of Countdown in a couple of weeks time and then the programme will be back in November. So all the best to Des Lynam and I can see that there is a longer waiting list for tickets to go and see Countdown recorded than any other programme and also a longer waiting list than to see the big hit shows like The Producers and Mary Poppins in London. Its also half a year longer than the waiting list for the new Aston Martin Vantage V8 car and outstrips Harvey ! Nichols three month queue for the new Chloe Paddington handbag! Birthdays A good email here that comes from Barbara Pullen. She says, Would you please include in your Mondays Levy Letter a very happy birthday to Veronica Firth and also Cheryl Lyons. They both work in the legal section typing pool and look forward to your letter every day. If I were to be honest it gives us something to look forward to at the end of the day. Please try and include them on Monday. Barbara thank you for the note and happy birthday to Veronica Firth and also Cheryl Lyons. Write Dont forget to get in touch if youve got a birthday coming up and you want a mention in the Levy Letter, or if youve got a story that you think wed be interested in doing something on Look North, or if youve got a problem that we may be able to tackle on the programme in Leave it to Levy. Then send me the details. If you want to write to me then its [EMAIL PROTECTED] And dont forget to keep your photographs coming in of views of the area for the Big Screen in the evening. Its the same address, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jungle Book Last week, we had our competition to win some tickets to go and see Jungle Book. Well, it wasnt just to win tickets to see the opening night, but also to meet the cast as well. All you had to do was to name the author of the classic book. Well the answer of course was Rudyard Kipling. The winners are Brian Clark from Barton upon Humber and Marie Naylor from Cottingham. So well done to Brian and to Marie. Well thats all from me for today. Join me for the programme tonight at BBC1 at 6.30pm and look out for another Levy Letter tomorrow! Take care, 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.
