snaps later today. Carolyn will be your host for PM tonight while I sit in for Mr Dimbleby on Any Questions - or AQ as they call it. It's AA tomorrow. I don't know whether to have a breakdown or a drink.
What question would you ask the panel this week?
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I'd ask the panel if they know how a cat managed to produce the World at One on Wednesday and why the ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ refuses to answer any questions on this phenomena.
Or, alternatively, what events from their youth they wouldn't want revealed to the Public today. I'd also ask the Chairman that question (but I know I wouldn't get an answer).
If the panellists were to be presented with the equivalent of a Bafta or Oscar for their work, who would they thank in their acceptance speech?
You can have a go at this one too, Eddie!
P.S. Don't worry about the breakdown - I'm sure Sir Richard and his wonderful trains can arrange that for you, so fill up the hipflask now!
BTW, don't you get the 'day' off when you're on evening duties? And will you be on AA tomorrow? Methinks you've been reading the Blog ....
My question is this - if the moderators allowed Hugh to put Chinese words into his posts yesterday, will they let me add this to his Book Of Useful Phrases? (Translation in brackets)
Ai pe nau (Where´s the toilet?)
xx
LadyPen
Question for Chris Huhne: If the Lib Dems got into power right now, what would they do to battle climate change within their first year of office? If these measures involve great expenditure, how will they pay for it?
Are you having to go up to Lancaster Eddie? (that isn't a question for the panel by the way)
Not a very inspiring panel this week.
"What can be done to change the bad behaviour culture?" (From inner-city shootings, down to running red lights and being generally rude)
"Does the panel believe President Bush when he tells us he's not lying?"
"Can we take 'pretty views' into account when deciding where to site eco-friendly power generators?"
"Do politicians have a right to a private past?"
"Is Eddie better than Jonathan / David / Richard?"
Regarding David Cameron's proposal that feckless fathers be compelled to stay with the families they've created, does the panel support the concept, and how would they enforce it?
Here's a question:
Was this Government's obsession with public consultations (I've done 60 of them now) designed to create 'consultation fatigue' in the public, just in time for sneaking Nuclear Power back into our future ... so that we'd all be too fed-up to notice or care?
Supplementary (shorter) question:
Will you all please learn to say 'nu-clear' not 'noo-cew-lar' like that illiterate fool across the Pond?
F. Ifi
East Badlands
Mornin' Eddie,
Question for the panel.
When did you last see a water vole?
Is this a promotion? Is Eddie being measured up for higher things?
tomi
To the Eddie Mair Show,
Hello Eddie,
If your'e off to Lancaster to do Any Questions and if you are going in the ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ limo warn the chauffeur that there are 'enforcement cameras' on the following roads.
Ashton Road, Lancaster, near Princess Ave (Ripley School) (A 588),
Cowan Bridge, Lancaster (A65),
Low Road, Halton (mobile camera),
Main Road Nether Kellet, Lancaster
Melling Road, Hornby, near Hornby High and Primary Schools (A683),
Morecambe Road, Lancaster (A683),
I've got a ticket for tonight's AQ so I'll see you there. I'll be in the second row wearing my smoking jacket and a fez.
Regards,
Gilbert.
Questions I would ask - re gun crime:
How do all these illegal guns get into the country and why can't we get some sort of handle on stopping it?
Why do we sell replica guns at all>/i>?
Why can a 17 year old legally own an air rifle - they just go round shooting cats with them
Re Prisons:
Why not more Restorative justice and community service orders for non-violent crimes?
who is on the panel?
LadyPen (4)
Thank you for that. You have cleared up something that had been puzzling me since my last trip to China. I was wondering why I was directed to the toilet when I asked to settle my bill in a restaurant.
My phrasebook said (Translation in brackets)
Ai pae nau (May I settle my bill?)
Obviously my pronunciation is not what it should be.
I'd be miffed if I were expecting to see Johnathan Dimbleby and ended up with Coco.
Belinda (5) I will indeed be in Lancaster. Whisky-Joe (9) that made me laugh a lot., and Tomi (10) emphatically not. If life was a little fairer, Nick Clarke would be doing the programme tonight. I'm doing it with something of a heavy heart as Nick was very much the main man when Mr Dimbleby was away. I may console myself on the beach with a sip at the Waterfront Bar. And Stewart M (13) the panel will be Shilpa, Robbie Williams, Jonnie from the Blog - oh and Sooty who will be on my right hand.
Ah well Eric, with a panel (and quizmaster) like that, I think I'll listen tonight. No, I can't, just remembered I'm going to a ceilidh :o(.
Listen Again it is then.
Question...
Is Bernard Matthew's goose well and truly cooked?
Val P (17),
There's the Saturday 13:15 repeat you can listen to...
Eddie, will you be able to see the blog at, say, 19:00 to see what questions we've dreamt up while you were in your limo to Lancaster?
Re: Eddie ..Grrreaaatt ! Hang on, Sooty won't need a mic. Robbie and I will have to do it down the line ... and as for Shilpa, Perhaps you could substitute Tony Stone, it would make for an exciting debate. -- nothing like a bit of clowning around :-)
Re: Joe Palooka, Excellent question - that made me laugh. I can actually hear Eddie saying that as it happens !
Any Questions website : Not sure why they used that photo.
/radio4/news/anyquestions.shtml
Panelists : PHIL WOOLAS MP: Minister for Communities and Local Government
Rt Hon THERESA MAY MP: the Shadow Leader of the House of Commons
CHRIS HUHNE MP: Liberal Democrat Spokesman for the Environment and Rural Affairs
JULIA UNWIN OBE, CBE: Director of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation
You must visit the court building if you are staying over in Lancaster. We did it last summer and its a very informative and interesting tour. The old jail remand cells are particularly grusome. Especially considering the numbers that they held.
Eddie
Qs: how can public policy promote social housing, without resorting to nanny state handouts?
Qs: why is possession of live ammo not eqivalent to the possession of class A drugs?
Qs: would the panel support setting up a 'fifty year' commision, to recommend within 18 months what Britain requires in the next fifty years, as far as infrastructure, power stations, state pensions, defence, etc
Ah yes, the Grumpy Photo. Not his best.
After they've answered a question, I'd ask them (in a slightly exasperated and mildly incredulous tone):
"Is that the best you can do?" .
Then sigh.
and end with a tut. Always, always end with a tut.
c'mon eddie - if you promise to tut I'll even stay in and listen!
Question for the panel: As a child, did Tony Stone have a bad experience at a circus?
Being a clown is not a bad thing - look at Krusty: he's famous, rolling in it, critically acclaimed and has his natural hair-colour. Aside from the 'rolling in it' part, then it's Eddie down to a T.
Chris Carter (7)
"feckless fathers be compelled to stay with the families they've created"
Many feckless fathers create more than one "Family", and some mothers have children by more than one father. So perhaps Mr. C thinks they should all be put in one large building together... Sounds even easier to administer than the Child Support Agency.
A question for tonight:
"What's that, Sooty?"
H.
I shall be poised to make comment on AA! Be nice to me Eddie.
Re Belinda :- HaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHa
That was so funny !
And I like the tutting one as well Whisht.
Tell you what we *could* do though.
They will no doubt have a researcher to do the Intro link about the building with some boring irrelevant facts about Lancaster -bit like Nicholas does on 'Just a minute'
Perhaps someone with some real local knowledge could post some fascinating facts about Lancaster that Eddie could substitute ?
Here's something for starters: The Judges lodging museum,
Built around 1625, this is reputedly Lancaster’s oldest townhouse and was once home to the chilling witch-hunter Thomas Covell (Pendle Witches 1612), six times Mayor of Lancaster and Keeper of Lancaster Castle for 48 years. In this latter capacity he was responsible for the imprisonment and death of the Lancashire Witches
At least callers won't confuse you with David on Any Answers........hopefully
(I wonder if Mr Knibbs will be producing tonight or tomorrow???)
Re: Valery P and your ceilidh, please take the camera along.
We'd love a nosey :-)
I emailed this to WATO last night:
How come Mr Enos Knibbs was producing on Wednesday? The Froggers on the PM website are well aware he is alive and well and using a catflap in Derbyshire!
I have just received this (anonymous) reply:
'You're right, he is indeed in the Peaks... but I named Mr Knibbs and reserve the right to use his name whenever I choose. Enos Knibbs turned up in our back garden one day. He was a lovely cat and we desperately wanted to keep him, but he bullied the cat we already had, so we gave him to Lissa... With whom he has become rather rotund. He is named after a Jamaican cricket umpire who was around in the 1930s. All the best.'
Humph (27 at present)
9 out of 10 for the Sooty question!
Jonnie - ok, will do :o)
Jonnie(29),
Or like Humph on ISIHAC:
This Nuffield theatre is the largest student theatre stage in Europe, and where well known comedians perform, to howls of laughter. On my left is...
(well, I'm sure Eddie could do better)
Re TSSCat @ 6
I would not believe George W even if he told me that he WAS lying!
I don't finish work at exactly 8, provided I'm not dealing with someone, so I'm going to have to RUN to get out of the building, through the car park and into my rusty steed in time to hear if he uses any of the above.....I vote for Deep's suggestion. The crew he has need a bit of ooomphing up
Deep (36)
Having read jonnie's suggested introduction I wanted to suggest a "Let's meet the teams" intro but could not think of one. Actually I missed the first 10 mins of the prog (who would have neighbourly neighbours? Well I would/do for one) so is Mr. Mayor on the same wavelength as me? Did he introduce the teams? I will use the listen again to find out (tomorrow pm is not an option for me).
H
Eddie "Let's have a show of hands. Who thinks public consultations are a waste of time?"
Oh very very good!
Ha! An amusing AQ! And one of the panellists just said that the Labour party was full of Number Two's. hohoho:-)
I missed large chunks - mild family crisis. Tomorrow then.
I missed Any Questions tonight because I had to work. But hope to catch it tomorrow on the way to Lancaster. I trust you've left everything tidy there, Eddie?
Some excellent questions here, I note. Bet none of them got asked though.
I like the "anonymous" reply re Mr Knibbs' employment. (We know who you are though...) And fancy blaming Lissa for letting him get big. As the owner of a "rotund" cat myself, sometimes it's impossible to diet them. They just pester til they get fed. Ours goes out & kills things if he's not happy with the meals delivered. Then he brings in the dead stuff, or even the half alive stuff, & lays it out for our delight. I suspect Mr K might be equally strong -willed?
A lovely warm tribute from Eddie to Nick Clarke at the start of the broadcast.
"If lifehad been fairer he would have been here"
Very touching, and unexpected.
Nick would have been the normal presenter to stand in for Jonathan Dimbleby.
I'll listen in full later or tomorrow as my SO's parents arrived at the start.
I did catch a bit in the car on the Asda run, something to do with Eddie's huge expenses bill and no doubt involving limo's between London and Lancaster.
For those of you who want to listen it's repeated on Radio 4 tomorrow :-
Sat (rpt) 13:10-14:00
Any Answers? Sat 14:00-14:30
or you can 'listen again' by clicking on this link:-
Fifi : Did you notice ! :-
"Today, only faster and funnier">Fiona Cowan
Thanks for all of that. I had fun. Now preparing for Any Answers - but in the meantime have posted some more Hugh pics.
See you on the ice at 2?
Thoroughly enjoyed your turn Eric -- I listened last night and today. There's devotion for you! Thanks again for all the quality crap.
Gosh yes, Jonnie. My score just keeps rising!
Must be something to do with the fact that I keep dreaming the rotten things up and then sending them.
Come on ye froggers! You too can have a strap like mine!
Fifi :o)
I enjoyed it immensely and am currently 'listening-again"
(hope this posts)
xx
ed