Hello Its Peter here, welcome to Thursdays Levy Letter, hope your days going well and youll be able to make it for tonights Look North at half past six.
We'll be meeting a woman who's holding a sale of her posessions to pay her way to the Olympics. Were speaking to that old smoothie Nigel Havers who'll soon be treading the boards in Hull New Theatre, and we'll have the second in our series of stories from Our Coast, with a woman from Boston who's obsessed with salt marshes. Tonight Lisa Gallagher will also be with us tonight at half past six with the forecast. Music One of the things we get complaints about on the programme is when we play music too loud when somebodys talking because people of a certain age find it difficult to separate the music from the speech. Music generally manages to upset people, theres a major rebellion on at the moment in a major high street chain store that will remain nameless. People are upset that this store have introduced piped music into their 400 premises as part of re-branding. Theyre planning a protest in order to get the company to revert to its no music policy. There are several groups, including one called Pipe Down which is an anti-noise group. Celebrity supporters include Tom Conti, Stephen Fry, and Julian Lloyd-Webber the cellist youd think hed be happy in case they played his music! Apparently the well known chain store is paying a quarter of a million pounds in royalties to the Performing Rights Society to play music which the customers dont like. If you have any views or comments on piped music in stores or indeed anything else you want to mention or us to tackle on the programme, contact me on [EMAIL PROTECTED] Stars As every actor or actress of a certain age knows, proper lighting can work wonders. I have worked with people in the past whove been very particular about their lighting, not only in the studio but in the dressing room as well, wanting it to make them look their best. Nicole Kidman is thirty nine now, and she recently checked into a suite at the Dorchester Hotel in London one of the poshest, if not the poshest, in London and what did she ask for? Well she wanted all the light bulbs to be changed from sixty watts to forty watts. The softer lighting is one of several requests Ms Kidman is said to have made in the can you believe this - £1700 a night room, where shes staying with her husband while she shoots a film. £1700 a night! I wonder if she gets breakfast included in that Shes also said to have requested an air humidifier, and a running machine installed, along with an exercise machine known as a wobble board, although this was denied by her spokesman. Staff at the hotel said that Ms Kidman had looked relaxed and charming during her stay. Although they do get some divas, staff thought Ms Kidman had actually been very good. Gardens I see the English garden is under threat. As climate change goes on, our gardens will change, weve been warned. Typical things like flower beds and fruit trees are under threat as temperatures rise. The Environment Minister Ian Pearson has said that gardeners should pick drought resistant plants such as Marigolds, Petunias, and Geraniums. The good news is that gardeners should cut their laws less, and leave them longer in order to prevent them drying out. The climate change threat is so grave that next year the Botanic gardens in Kew is planning to have a Mediterranean garden to show how to deal with the drought. But all is not lost because Alan Titchmarsh says dont panic. All is well in the world then Tommy Cooper As you know I like autobiographies and biographies of well known people, and at the moment Im reading Barbara Windsors story which is out in paperback. Gloria Johnson from Radio Humberside has leant me that, and what a good read it is. Ive just been hearing about a forthcoming biography of Tommy Cooper written by BBC Producer John Fisher. He says Tommy Cooper nearly killed Michael Parkinson! Cooper was a guest on the Parkinson show in 1979 and forgot to set the safety catch on the guillotine in the trick hed invited Michael to take part in. Mr Fisher goes on to say that if a technician hadnt intervened quickly, Michael would have been decapitated. Although it was a trick guillotine, the blade was real. Thats the first time Ive heard that story, but what a great one that is. The Killers Tickets go on sale at 9 oclock tomorrow morning for one of this regions biggest upcoming musical events. The Killers will be playing at Hull arena on the 21st on November, and if you tune in to Friday evenings Look North you could have a chance to win some tickets. So if youre a music lover, dont miss that. Well thats it from me today. Join me again for tomorrows Levy Letter on Friday. Thatll be our last Levy letter for a week as Im on holiday! After my break for a week the Levy letter will return on Monday the 25th of September. 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