Hello, its Peter here and welcome to Tuesdays Levy Letter. I hope your days going well and I hope you can join me tonight BBC1 at 6.30pm. Well have all the days news and also tonight well be talking to the actress Leah Bracknell. Leah plays Zoe Tate in the long running soap Emmerdale and shell be joining me tonight at 6.30pm.
Bury Me A growing number of people are making the bizarre request to be buried with their mobile phone! Can you believe this? You couldnt make it up anyway! The ancient Egyptians chose to go to their tombs covered in jewels and other earthly treasures and often took their servants with them into the afterlife, but Britons in the 21st Century are opting to be buried with their electronic gadgets. According to research by Age Concern, people want to buried with a plethora of unusual items. Last requests have baffled undertakers, which include going to the grave with bottles of whiskey, papers, a fax machine and in one case a coconut! Others have chosen to have their pets remains buried with them. Some men have asked to take their golf clubs with them, while 2% have, perhaps selfishly, asked to take their cash with them to the grave! One person was even buried with a bag of crisps. A decade ago it was common for people to be buried with love letters, photographs and wedding rings and! other personal items, but these days things have changed. The top ten list of things that are being taken to the grave at the moment a mobile phone is number one, fax machines are at number two. I mean, why would you want to be buried with a fax machine?? Remains of a pet is number three, cash is at number four, golf clubs number five, and a coconut is at number six! As I say, you just couldnt make it up! Clever Clogs Well, when Patrick Gibson won the jackpot on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire, hed started on a winning streak, but he certainly hadnt finished. A year later and hes now won Mastermind! The computer programmer and self-confessed trivia addict is Mastermind champion after a nail biting final where he answered questions on the TV show Father Ted. Mr Gibson, who was from Ireland, but now lives in Wigan, beat off other competition from a university lecturer, a writer, an accountant and a translator. And now holds the title of Mastermind champion and ITVs Who Wants To Be A Millionaire. Theres something a little bit unfair that someone can actually have a go at both and win both competitions, but nevertheless he has. So well done to Patrick Gibson! Smoking Well, Look North would like to put out an appeal now for anyone whos got an event planned for the night of Thursday 24 November. Thats the night the licensing laws change and 24 hours drinkings introduced. Weve some special coverage planned for Fridays programme, but wed really like to send a camera crew along to a birthday bash, Christmas party, a hen or stag night or even just a pub crawl where there are quite a few of you attending. So if thats you and youve got a wild night planned for Thursday, then please let me know, we want to know what its going to be like under these new laws. The normal address to get in touch with me directly is [EMAIL PROTECTED] So hurry, please get in touch if thats you! Birthdays Katie Smith is 21 today. Lots of love comes from Mum and Dad. So Katie happy birthday to you! Have a wonderful day! Dont forget if youve got a birthday coming up or someone you know has got a birthday coming up and theyd like a mention in the Levy Letter, then drop me a line and let me know. Of course, you can get me direct on email for this or for anything else you want to chat to me about, including if youve got any Leave it to Levy problems the address is [EMAIL PROTECTED] Children In Need Dont forget, Friday night is Children In Need. Join us for that on BBC1 throughout the evening. And if you havent got your Children In Need Calendar yet for 2006 then they are still available. Pop into our receptions in Grimsby, Lincoln or Hull and pick one up for £5. All proceeds go to Children In Need. If you cant get in to pick one up, then thats not a problem. Just pop a cheque in the post to us to BBC Look North Calendar, Queens Court, Queens Gardens, Hull, HU1 3RH. The cheque needs to be payable to the BBC for £6 to cover postage and packing. And as I say, its just a few days away from Children In Need night, so join me on Friday night on BBC1 starting from 7.00pm. Photographs Photographs keep coming in for the Big Screen on the programme. If youve got a photograph that youre particularly proud of, a view or a scene or perhaps something thats a bit arty, if youd like to see it on the programme, then send it to me, either electronically via email, or just post a hard copy to me to BBC Look North Photographs, Queens Court, Queens Gardens, Hull, HU1 3RH. And make sure you include a return address on the back if you want us to send it back to you. New Seekers If youre about my age, or slightly less, youll remember the New Seekers. They were a group in the seventies that were famously all about perfect harmonies. The vocalist of the time was, Eve Graham I havent heard her name mentioned for a long time. The New Seekers, according to her, were destroyed by egos and rows over money, which still rage to this day. But from 1970 1973 they had a string of hits. Do you remember Id Like To Teach The World To Sing, Beg Steal Or Borrow, which won them second place in the Eurovision Song Contest in 1972 if my memory serves me right. But can you believe after all these years, and I hadnt heard from her for years and years, Eve Graham is making a solo comeback at the age of 62! So there you are, shes got a new solo album The Mountains Welcome Me Home. So Eve Graham is back thirty years after chart success and has got a new album out at the age of 62. Talking of music, one of the biggest musicals of all time, Seven Brides For Seven Brothers is on this week at Hull New Theatre. In it is Dave Willetts and Shona Lindsay, two stalwarts of the West End and Im looking forward to seeing them one night this week. Im sure itll be a big hit this week at Hull New Theatre. Dont forget if youre involved in an amateur group or society and youd like a plug or a little bit of publicity in the Levy Letter, then do drop me a line and let me know what youre up to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Well thats all from me on Tuesday. Join me tonight on BBC1 at 6.30pm and look out for your Levy Letter tomorrow on Wednesday round about the same time. 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