Hello, its Peter here. I hope your weekend was good. Welcome to the start of another week and welcome to todays Levy Letter on Monday 31st October and happy Halloween! I see that if youre in Cornwall, then youre three times more likely (and its a good job I didnt know this when I was in school!), but in Cornwall, youre three times more likely to see a ghost and twice as likely to spot a UFO than anywhere else! Anyway, its Halloween today happy Halloween to you! I hope you can join me tonight at the usual time, 6.30pm on BBC1. No doubt well have something to mark Halloween on the programme and well be talking to someone else a bit scary, Syd Little, one half of Little and Large! So join me if you can.
Eastenders Well, Eastenders seems to go up and down, doesnt it, like a rollercoaster. Its on a high at the moment, and the hard man of Eastenders, the actor Ross Kemp will return to the soap next year for a third stint, playing of course mean and moody Grant Mitchell. He came back for the second time and the figures have leapt up. He stormed back into Albert Square on Monday night with the line ello Mum! He added three million viewers. BBC bosses now, I read, are hoping that another four month spell of filming from January with screen mum Peggy Mitchell, played of course by Barbara Windsor and Phil Mitchell played by Steve McFadden, will keep fans hooked. So there you are Eastenders doing very well in the ratings at the moment. And talking of ratings, but on the radio now, the injection of a love triangle storyline into The Archers has helped Radio 4s soap about farm life to go right to the top. The long running serial recently recorded its highest lunchtime audience of 2.4 million, the latest figures show. And overall, the figures show it at 4.5 million, the highest since January 2003. So there you are, good news if you are a listener to The Archers. I have to say that it isnt something Ive really got into, but there is now a very glamorous woman in it, whos getting all the publicity, Felicity Jones. Felicity plays Emma in The Archers. Anyway, if youre a listener to The Archers, then its good news for them at the moment. Christmas Story Line Now then, Kingston Communications will be launching their annual Christmas Story Line for children. Its been running since 1952 and was the first service of its kind in the UK. It offers a telephone service, which runs in the week up to Christmas, where children can phone up and hear a different Christmas story every day. This year theyre launching a competition inviting people to write their own Christmas story. The winners will have their story recorded and used on the story line this Christmas. So if youre in the Christmas spirit already and are feeling a bit creative then put pen to paper and write a little Christmas story for children. This year, all the proceeds from this Christmas Story Line are going to a very worthy cause CLIC-Sargent, which supports children with cancer. So I hope you can help with that one. Couples Too Busy To Talk Its sad isnt it, but millions of couples are now so busy with their daily lives that they often dont have time to speak to each other for a whole week, research shows! Experts are warning that theyre putting their relationships at risk by not spending enough quality time together. Despite constant talk of work/life balance, a study of many working adults and co-habiting adults, show that commitments in the office are becoming such a burden on their relationships that one in five of couples will regularly go a whole week without any quality time together. There you are, you may be putting your relationship at risk! If thats applicable to anyone reading the Levy Letter, then I would be grateful if you could drop me a line to see if thats the case - whether you go a whole week without talking to each other. Calendar As you know, we launched the BBC Look North calendar at the end of last week, and were trying to raise as much money as we can for Children in Need. If you want to pop into one of our receptions, either at BBC Radio Lincolnshire or to the Radio Lincolnshire bus, to the Grimsby reception, or to the BBC Radio Humberside bus on its various travels across the region and buy your calendar. Theyre also available in the BBC Open Centre in Hull. They are £5 for Children In Need. If you want to send me a cheque, make it payable to the BBC for £6 to cover postage and packing. Of course, were hoping to raise as much money as possible for Children In Need and Ill give you details, just after Christmas, of how much money we raised from the sale of the calendar. So look out for it! Leave it to Levy Dont forget if youve got a problem that you think we might be able to take on in the programme and sort out for you, then send me the details and also a telephone number if youve got one. Drop me a line, either to the BBC, Queens Court, Queens Gardens, Hull, HU1 3RH or you can get me direct on email at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Well, thats all for today. Have a good Monday and have a happy Halloween! Join me tonight for all the days news. Paul will have the weather. Join me tonight, BBC1 at 6.30pm! See you there. 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.
