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Monday's 'themeless' show was a bit tense...well it was for my producer. Imagine trying to produce a spontaneous show where you had no theme, no tracks and...er...no presenter!

I had spent most of the weekend as MC at the Commonwealth Table Tennis Championships which were being held in Glasgow for the first time since 1997. There were some world class players in action and it seemed that for most of the championships the team from Singapore were absolutely unstoppable.

So unstoppable were they that the men's singles final on Monday afternoon was still going on at a time when I should have been in the studio. The organisers had agreed to have a car standing by to whisk me off to the studio as soon as the match was over so that did calm Barbara's nerves a little. I had suggested that our budget might stretch to a helicopter but you can imagine the reaction that got from Miss Babs!

It wasn't much of a dilemma for me as I knew there was no way I could be late for the show. But then again I couldn't just bring the match to a close and shout "Guys, you'll need to get yer medals now as I've got Get It On in ten minutes!!!" Luckily the ferocious pace of the final meant it finished rapidly and as soon as the final notes of Singapore's national anthem sounded I was in my car and making my way across town to our studios.

I did pick up a request or two while I was at the table tennis and all that watching two people shouting at each other and flinging things back and forth across a table was good training for some robust banter with Miss Babs in the studio.