BBC North live from Leeds on Thursday

Oh flip doodly doo! This is absolutely bloody excellent! I hope the trains don't let me down!

Well if you end up catching a certain train company, I'd plan to arrive 2 hours early, you don't want to miss Paul's bit.

By the way, I wouldn't be suprised if Paul stays in Leeds centre, and does the Look North forecasts from there.

Earliest connections can see me in Leeds at 09:13.

If you have to travel Arriva, and if it arrives late, at least you'll have something to chat to Christa about !!

I've got no idea how you are managing to get all the way from deepest Lincolnshire to Leeds before 9.30am!

Do you have to change about three times?

ITINERARY:

Depart Boston at 06:23 (Central Trains Boston - Manchester Airport service)
Arrive Grantham at 07:12.

CHANGE AT GRANTHAM.

Depart Grantham at 07:23 (GNER service from London Kings cross to Edinburgh Waverley)
Arrive in Doncaster at 08:06.

CHANGE AT DONCASTER.

Depart Doncaster at 08:26 (Arriva Northern service from Doncaster to Leeds)
Arrive Leeds at 09:13.

IF Arriva don't knacker my schedule by cancelling!

Probably will Kath! Better set off the day before to get there in time!

Talk about all your Christmas's coming at once Katherine!

If you doze off on the train and make it Edinburgh Waverly, I'll give you a nice cuppa and make sure you get the right train back.

Methinks you wouldn't do that. I'll bet you won't even sleep the night before!

I was similarly nervous last week before I went down to the Weakest Link. And yes, Anne lived right up to expectations!

UPDATE:

I have one remaining thread of sanity left!!

When will the show featuring you be televised?

When did you get voted off? First? http://web.ukonline.co.uk/tv.home/forum/emoticons/biggrin.gif hehe

First? Moi? Lol!

In fact, I was asked to go down to be a 'stand-by' for the Red Head Special, which will be shown before the end of the year on BBC2. They always have a spare man and woman contestant (in case of ill heatch etc) and I was happy to oblige. I go back down to Pinewood in January to get my shot on the show. I cannot speak highly enough of the brilliant people there.

That day (last Wednesday), they filmed two other 'specials' for the festive season: The Runners Up special and a Drag Queen special! The latter goes out on New Years day and was hysterical! I urge you to watch. The day I flew back to Edinburgh they were shooting a 'Scandal' special. The runners were talking about Neil and Christine Hamilton appearing...

BBC Radio Leeds is live from Leeds today, and as Katherine has already said, she managed to end up playing Beat the Intro.

You should have seen the set up, imagine a massive stage, a fold-away 'village hall' style table, some microphones and Peter Levy sat there!.

One of the guests was a 'lookalike' of David Beckham, who booked him for a radio show...?
Plus it gets even better, he'd lost his voice.

Paul looks even smaller, Christa even more upmarket, Peter actually looks younger!

A quick look at the amount of people watching in Leeds City Centre:

Peter Levy Show - 200
Martin Kelner - 20
The Wireless Set - 20
...

Who was that man with the dog who practically attacked Christa?

Was the beannoraked Lincolnshire man, who played Pontoon, with you Katherine??

more later!

(Edited by Andrew at 4:16 pm on Dec. 20, 2001)