Hello It's Peter here and welcome to Tuesday's Levy letter. I hope your day is good and you'll be able to join me tonight on BBC One at half past six. We'll have all the day's news, and also tonight I will be talking to the playwright John Godber about his latest production at the Hull New Theatre. He's been artistic director there for well over 20 years now. Everything he writes ends up being a hit, and his latest play has just opened. I'll be talking to him tonight. As well as that, we'll have a special report on the inquest into the gas explosion which killed a man earlier this year.
We'll find out why the Humberside Police Chief Constable is attacking the Home office today. Humberside police have been in the news quite a bit recently, and this is set to continue that trend. We'll have the latest on a murder inquiry after a woman's body was found in the River Welland in Lincolnshire. Find out why patients suffering from Kidney disease are up in arms today. As always, stories about the health service are bound to provoke a big response, we'll be giving out our contact details during the programme later. We'll visit Spalding to find why exotic flowers are all the rage for this Christmas And in a world first, we put a new paragliding simulator to the test. It's been developed by Hull University, and apparently it's very realistic. And we'll have the forecast as usual from Paul. Stories We had an interesting story last night about an old sandwich, we have various stories that come in to us, if you think you've got one we might be able to use, then give me the details at the usual address [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. If there's a guest you particularly want me to have on the programme then also let me know what you think. One of our guests a few weeks ago, Katherine Jenkins is still in the album charts with her album Serenade up in the top 20. Everybody seems to be talking about Take That these days, I know they were on the television a few days back with their concert. Well they now hold the position of being number one in the album chart and also number one in the singles charts as well, which isn't bad. So Take That, are top of the charts again all these years on. TV It would be interesting to hear your favourite programme of the year as well, the series, the programme that most captured your imagination. Talking of television, Noel Edmonds has threatened to bring back Mr Blobby after the success of Deal or No Deal. He said that he once had a Christmas hit, and so there's no reason for bringing him back. I would have thought there's a very good reason for bringing him back. Anyway, send me your suggestions for favourite programme of the year, those you've enjoyed the best. Several people have written to me about the programme the other night, from about 1939, Victoria Wood, lots of people enjoyed that. One programme I enjoyed was The Chase. Although it didn't get a lot of publicity it was a great series and it's out now on DVD starring Keith Barron and also Gaynor Faye and Nicola Stephenson. It was actually set in Yorkshire, in West Yorkshire. It was all about a vet's practice. It was just after Gaynor Faye had been on the television. She was great in it, her mum wrote it, the playwright Kaye Mellor. Michelle Holmes was also in it. It was a very good series, it was called the chase, and gets my vote for drama of the year. I particularly enjoyed that, and I've now got that on DVD. Send me your suggestions, your choices from the year, and let me know what they are by dropping me a line at the usual email address. Houses I was talking yesterday about the fact that the price of the average property is going up at the moment at the rate of £50 a day. It's an extraordinary figure, that's the average house price. Well they also reckon that 100,000 home owners will find themselves on millionaire's row by the spring. With no let up in the house prices boom, another 384 middle class families a week are being turned into bricks and mortar millionaires. Another 384 people a week are finding that their house is worth a million pounds. So there we are, I sometimes wonder what the newspapers, and also the Levy Letter would do without the story of house prices. We seem to live on it quite a lot, but there it goes again, another house prices story. Royal Variety Show Well it was on stage just a few days back, but tonight it's the night for the screening of the Royal Variety show. Often, the Royal Variety show seems to be a little bit tired and a little bit old fashioned, but I think this year's show, which is on BBC One tonight - the one to watch - is at 8' o clock. It's compared by Jonathan Ross, and it's the 78th time there's been a Royal Variety show. Lots of names lining up this year, including Ken Dodd, Barry Manilow, the Sugababes, the list goes on. It does look as if it's going to be a really good show if you like light entertainment. It's BBC One at eight o'clock, and it continues again after the news at half past ten. Shopping There's a story in the local paper in Hull last night about the number of people shopping in Hull and the fact that it's very quiet. I was talking to a friend of mine who was in Birmingham at the weekend, saying it was no busier than an ordinary Saturday in Birmingham. I went to Leeds on Sunday, again, no busier than an average Sunday, and everybody was saying what's happening? Did people shop earlier, are they leaving it to this weekend, or are they shopping on the internet? Well, as you know, I've never bought anything on the internet, but it does seem that that's where people are doing their shopping. Someone was telling me today that the average price when you buy something on the internet is considerably cheaper. If you're talking about a tv, or a telephone or something like that it's well worth it, and of course you haven't got to have the car parking bill, which for a few hours in Leeds was £10. Anyway, your views on shopping are welcome, whether people are chopping o! n the internet, or whether they're just not buying as much this year. But the shops are definitely much quieter than they were expected to be. Well that's it from me, join me tonight at six thirty on BBC One for Look North. See you then, bye. 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. 1.94.4
