Our first broadcast from the home of a listener! Look!
Here are Jen, me and our listener Sarah at Sarah's lovely home in Wimbledon....this was us trying to wake up before the show. You can hear the show now by using the bits on the right under "Listen to iPM"...CAN I recommend the Podcast as it has extra stuff exclusive to the podcast. Including a noise from a listener!
We had a great time - Sarah looked after us, and we didn't disturb her neighbours too much. Below is a snap of Ryan the editor and Jen (with her eyes closed I think, and what appears to be a weather symbol to the right of her head) as we skulked around Borough Market in London after the show looking for coffee and a bacon roll (we found a place. Lovely). I was actually after that nice image of St Paul's in the sunrise in the background...but Ryan and Jen got in the way.
Several listeners have emailed offering their home as a venue, including:
"Location: Northern France about 45 minutes from the tunnel.
What I can offer: the sound of my cockerel crowing. He's called Louis Armstrong because he's small, black and sings a lot.
What I can offer your listeners: the lovely aroma of freshly brewed coffee and croissants.
My company: I'm Mark, I'm 44 and a bit. Work as an English teacher. I've lived here for 8 years. Partner is Catherine who's French so I've gone native. We share this place with hens, ducks, geese and rabbits.
Regards,
Mark"
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Eddie- if you play your cards right, you and the PM team need never pay for holidays again!
Brilliant show this morning. Somehow I woke just before 5 45 am to hear it. Loved the sound of the music falling off the piano too.
And what about your grand finale? You never told us you were musical!
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I was awake (not due to excitement of it all), and yes that 04:30 aircraft was particularly noisy. Big, and low. (I'm in Richmond, rather closer to LHR than Wimbledon). Also tuned in at 05:45 this morning. Do you provide the continuity announcer's script?
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I would have said that the second picture showed a cartoon-like "thought cloud" to the right of Jen. I wonder what she was thinking. I am in a chord with annasee's comment about the finale. ;o)
H.
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Hi Humph
Aside from obviously thinking about brilliantly original ideas for our next programme, because you, the listener, is always at the centre of my thoughts -
I was thinking about how cold it is and why is Eddie faffing around taking pic's when what we really need is some strong coffee...have I ruined what could have been a beautiful mystery?
Jen
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You're welcome to come and say G'day in Sydney if you think the BBC licence payer would stump up the airfares! :)
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THAT'S more like it. Thank you Tom.
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Oh how embarrasing -
I've just downloaded the podcast.
Your 'A' annasee, and gossipmistress will have to be deferred to another week.
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You are also welcome in America - specifically to the lovely shores of Lake Erie, not far from the lovely city of Cleveland. However, I'd suggest you'd wait till spring has sprung, as we have snow on the ground now. Maybe the Beeb will be up for an iPM world tour ....
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Cripes, you mean you actually broadcast live? I mean, I know Eddie's an early bird, but poor Jen and Ryan. Specially Jen, it seems. Get one of those quadlattes Eric drinks, Jen.
And congrats to Sarah for letting that lot rampage around your flat.
The thing that worries me most, though, is that Ryan and Jen had to go all the way from Wimbledon to Borough Market to find a coffee and a bacon roll. That's quite a schlep.
Or is it that they're only allowed out of the News Centre to do these location thingies? And decided to make the best of it? Shame on you, BBC! Apologies now, please. Send them to France, the US and Oz! They bloomin deserve it.
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Frances (9),
I wondered why they had slogged from Waterloo (which is understandable from Wimbledon, the Kingston loop), then round to Waterloo East, or else the Jubliee extension to get to London Bridge, and then beneath (or above) it for Borough Market. OK, it's a great place, good coffee places etc. But I'm sure there are coffee places in Wimbledon. Maybe not open at 06:00, though...
I assumed the 05:45 was normally recorded the day before, as they used to assume that people would only listen to the podcast, they never mentioned the 05:45 slot which I assumed was there to "broadcast" the edition, and justify the podcast. (I've not lost you here?).
I particularly liked the garden mike broadcast. Of course BAA ensured no aircraft were flying into LHR during iPM's broadcast, but there were plenty either side of iPM. It was very brave of Sarah to let a BBC OB in at that time of the morning...well done! But I too put in a vote for having the music on a hair-trigger to fall off the piano during the show!
[What next?: PM from a Frogger's convention?]
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BBC please help!!
I am a retired British Civil Servant having just moved back from abroad to live in the UK. We are staying at various friends homes in the UK and France until we move into a house of our own and we know our financial state. This is our present position:
In the 1980’s I was seconded from HM Customs & Excise to the MOD Cyprus in the Sovereign Base Ares Administration. My position was as a UK salaried Civil Servant paid and taxed in the UK. I was, at that time, having problems with the high street bank I was with, mainly lack of flexibility in dealing with me while I was overseas, and joined the Isle of Man branch of the ‘old’ British Merchant Bank – Singer & Friedlander. I have remained with them ever since and found that their service and assistance far surpassing any of the British high street banks I have ever had the misfortune to deal with.
A few years ago Kaupthing took over S&F IOM, but that made no difference to the quality of service I received so I stayed with that bank. The bank provided me with a current account within the British banking system. It had a British Sort Code, made direct debits and standing orders within the UK as well as sending and receiving British and foreign interbank transfers, etc.
After five years I returned to my home department in the UK and my salary continued to be paid into the S&F IOM bank – UK tax paid. Later I was again seconded by my department to an EU Customs project in Latvia. Later, and after being retired from HMC&E, I worked for the British Government (DFID and the F&CO) on various Customs projects in various countries including Mozambique (after their civil war finished) and Kabul in Afghanistan (immediately after the NATO invasion).
I was also recruited by DFID to work for two years with the UN in Kosovo and I became the Deputy Regional Administrator in Mitrovica immediately after NATO / KFOR secured the town. I was in the middle of all the ongoing troubles between the Serbs and the Albanians. This was not a Customs job.
Through all this and up to the present day I have banked with S&F IOM which then became K S&F IOM. Their service continued to be excellent and I was able to easily move (electronically and telephonically) my living expenses and salary through their bank to where ever I was working and / or living. During this period I managed to accumulate a modest amount of savings which I retained with KS&F IOM as well as continuing to use my current account with them. The money I accumulated was hard earned and taxed at which ever country my wife and I ‘permanently resided’.
I / we now need this money to support our retirement. But we no longer have it. All our savings (£120,000) are now ‘wiped out’. The consequences are that we have to try and live on a small pension - and own no property. At the age of 64 years I am now looking to have to work again in areas and countries that are not my own, some being very dangerous, in order for us to be able to try and live comfortably again – hopefully back in the UK. That is if I can find any work at my age!
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Made redundant in my early 50s, I had no option but to work for many years in the Gulf, investing and saving for our “retirement” which began last July and lasted just three months until October 9. It is ironic that the Brown / Darling government has used “anti-terrorist” legislation as a vehicle to effectively steal £ 550,000 from mostly hard-working and tax-paying British citizens. Our treatment whilst in the middle-East, always correct and courteous, stands in stark contrast to that of the UK Government, who have seen fit to seize our life / retirement savings by force and deception. Just who are the “terrorists” here? IOM savers and retirees or a government that steals their citizen's life savings for redistribution to more favoured groups? Shame, Mr Brown.
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