It's a bank holiday but hopefully you still found time to listen to PM. If so, what did you think of tonight's programme. Give us your views here - and Fiona Leach, the Editor today will look through them after our own meeting in our own glass box at 6pm.
Best wishes,
sequin
Good Morning. You may be having a little lie-in on this Bank Holiday morning - but if you think of anything you'd like to hear on tonight's programme, why not tell us so that we can discuss it at our meeting at 11am.
It's me today - for one day only! Look forward to hearing from you
sequin
Yes, really, you can win this man. We are handing legendary reporter Hugh Sykes over to you.
Over the next few weeks, Hugh will be reading the suggestions, stories and ideas we receive and will record a special piece for iPM.
If you'd like to win Hugh, tell us what you'd like him to report on - it could be a subject close to your heart; something happening in your town, workplace or home; or your unique take on something you've heard in the news - it's up to you. But please send it to us before the 8 July 2010.
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Every night at 6pm, the PM production team gathers in a large glass box to talk about how the programme went.
THIS is your opportunity to do the same. Please leave your comment for tonight's editor Roger Sawyer to read.
Question Time....on PM tonight.
And don't even think about it. This is NOT a caption competition.
Click here. But only if you don't mind a bit of bad language...
On iPM this week (podcast it here from Saturday morning) you have the chance to have Hugh Sykes do a report of your choice. Something local to you perhaps? Something global you care about...or a philosophical idea you'd like Hugh to explore. Email ipm@bbc.co.uk.
Last night on PM, Hugh brought us his latest report.
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Hugh sends these words and pictures:
"Nice new Mbombela stadium near Nelspruit:
Pity about the broken promises to bring water, electricity and decent housing to Matsafeni village, right next door:
Irony:
Coca Cola are official sponsors of the World Cup.
Ntombifuti Nyoni, creche co-ordinator.
That's Roni Slatchayo. He says the village has gained nothing from the new stadium. The children just pose for pictures:
and one little girl blows me a kiss.
But there is a menaciong aspect to this story. Mayor Lassy Ciwayo says promises to the village were broken by the previous council administration.
He has promised to put it right. But he has also received a death threat. A former colleague was murdered when he said he had evidence of corruption associated with tenders for the new stadium. Mayor Chiwayo is prepared to give evidence too. He is as well-protected as he can be. But, as he said, "There are 24 hours in a day.""
This email arrived yesterday: "Dear Eddie, Today is Malton and Thirsk's eventual general election day. I enclose a photo of the polling station notice near Malton town centre. Is someone trying to tell us that ours is a wasted vote, or have they provided somewhere to put our spoiled papers? Yours, Derek McManus"
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"Shock as sheltered British man on mission to supermarket in Oslo comes across foreign sounding foods."
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It's just over two weeks now to the start of the World Cup. Hugh is there for PM, with a series of reports over the next few days on PM, The World at One and Broadcasting House.
Hugh will be on PM tonight. He sends these words and pictures - "some of the scenes at a World Cup warm-up friendly between South Africa and Thailand:
But these children won't be going to the World Cup. They're enjoying a joint birthday party - for thirty children - in an 'unofficial' pre-school centre that relies on donations for its existence:
The children shared four birthday cakes, which were passed around and their candles re-lit for every child:
The World Cup slogan in South Africa is: "You Can Feeel It - It Is Heeere!": it works:
And these children lined up specially for me - how could I resist?":
"I've just left the commentators' briefing. This is where organisers swap information with the 39 (yes 39) countries who've sent a commentator. Even Australia is here.
Each country supplies the correct pronunciation in advance of each of the three shows. So when the Croatian commentator stood up he had to pronounce and then translate the title "Lako Je Sve." It's pronounced as seen except the J is soft as in Y.
He offered the translation "Easy to see." Since there are so many languages in the room, the Norwegian asked if that meant easy as in beautiful / easy on the eye, or instead easy to see as in clearly visible.
More countries are singing in their own languages than in recent years. Historically, English is the language of more winning acts than any other, but there is real enthusiasm when artists stick with their native tongue.
It might be for that reason that we English speakers will be faced
with a choice when we get to the Swiss entry, Il pleut de l'or.
Should we opt for It's raining gold, or instead the simpler golden shower?"
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Nigel Wrench writes: "Thought you might be able to name what sort of worms these are.
They're at the Chelsea Flower Show, at the Eden Project's Places of Change garden, awarded a silver medal this morning by the Royal Horticultural Society, after an appearance on PM yesterday.
In the singlet is Paul Pulford, "Scruffy" to friends, garden co-designer, who credits horticulture with getting him off heroin and off the streets. He relished showing off the worms, at Chelsea to underline this show garden's biodiversity and wildlife. Next to him, Howard Jones, the Eden Project's director of human networks, was game, but a little less enthusiastic.
There's Mr Jones to the right walking off after the snaps were taken, Mr Pulford remained in the bodger's hut he and his team created. No news yet on whether the Queen has taken up his offer, made on last night's PM, to create a wildflower garden at Buckingham Palace.
Oh, and here's Dibley's Streptocarpus 'Harlequin Blue', just named as the first Chelsea Plant of the Year."
"Moscow last year broke records for spending on the contest. It was one of the biggest shows ever seen on Television - the Beijing Olympics of Song. It was said at one point that half the specialised stage lights in half the continent were on the stage.
It even seemed as if Ukraine's gas supply had been re-routed to the performance. It was a giant and spectacular show.
But in these financial times of woe, no country can stage such an event again. Moscow was probably the high-water mark of spangled splurge.
Norway is hosting a smart small stage using three experienced and funny hosts to take the mickey out of themselves. There's even a joke about ash, when in truth that Volcano threatened much about the show's preparations.
Many nations have such a parlous state of finances at home that this is probably
Wonderland. It's a brief moment of glee, which ends late on Saturday night, when the argument over who won and why will quickly give way to other concerns."
"UK entrant, Josh, (centre) with a big microphone above his head"
"Helen, ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ producer, mends UK dancers outfit at midnight."
"Oslo's new opera house"
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In PM tonight we'll talk about the death of . the programme tonight we'll hear from , who first learned how to be a ventriloquist at the age of 15, thanks to a book by Ray Alan....here they are later in life.
"The man who runs the Eurovision Song Contest is Swedish. The people who count the votes are German, and the Norwegians are hosting with the inspiration of a real British Eurovision fan called Helen.
Helen is 36 and she really exists. I am trying to find out more about her, but I think she comes from Milton Keynes.
Norwegian organisers told me at the commentators' briefing that they wanted to remember that most viewers are NOT Norwegian. Norway has 4 million people, planet Eurovision is watched by 125 million. ( I added the word planet.)
So the focus is to remember Helen (poss from Milton Keynes) at all times. She is married with children, she's 36, and the show is designed with her and millions like her, in mind."
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Dr Paddy O'Connell is now in Oslo where he's covering the 15 semi finals and the final for a variety of ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ outlets. He has kindly agreed to keep an occasional diary for us. Here is his first entry:
"Arrive Oslo and bump into Iceland's big favourite. Watchword this year unlike UK politics is women should form at least half of winners' top ten table."
You may have read your morning paper and listened to the radio, and have some ideas you want to hear on PM tonight.
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Nigel writes: "A park in Norwich, a composer, seven borrowed ice cream vans (and a reporter).
Because, remarkably, these vans and their chimes form the orchestra for Mr Jones's new piece, Suburban Counterpoint (Music For Seven Ice Cream Vans).
All seven will tour the suburbs of Norwich this evening and tomorrow, playing the piece in relay. The idea is that you'll hear it wafting across the streets, meandering into your consciousness.
Dan Jones holds a map of where the vans are going while his sound engineer tells ice cream man Halil Topalcik (that's his back on the right) just what he's doing to his van.
It's part of the closing weekend of the Norfolk and Norwich Festival, on PM this evening, with a special mix, exclusive for us of the piece.
Favourite ice cream van tune anyone?"
(Our pictures by the way are by Ryan Watts)
UPDATE
Here's Nigel's report as heard on PM this evening:
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And the music itself:
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Everybody's doing it! Get in on the fun by declaring here on the blog that you too want to be Labour leader! Use exclamation marks!
This vehicle is sitting outside our office.
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Garry Burrows took this photo of fires burning in Bangkok. Garry, from St Helens, Merseyside, lives about 100 metres from the Ratchaprasong protest site on the 29th floor of a towerblock. We hear from him on Saturday PM.
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Yesterday, Thomas Fuller from The New York Times was interviewing a renegade general in Bangkok, when the general was shot. You can read Mr Fuller's account . The up-to-date ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ News coverage is .
We've just been speaking to him. It's a long interview, but Mr Fuller was very informative, and you'll find his words a useful a guide to events in Thailand, seen as they are through the eyes of someone who knows and loves the country. We'll run an edited version in the programme tonight.
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Jon Manel was out and about last night following Labour's only candidate (so far) for the party leadership. Here he is: John Stewart - a builder from Harrow. Jon met him "when he was busy mixing concrete on Thursday morning. He was laying a patio and I asked him how he would rebuild the Labour Party. In the past he has always voted Labour but last week he decided not to. A few hours later, I introduced him to David Miliband. I took the picture of a smiling Mr Stewart after he met him and after he had complained about Labour veering too far to the right.
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"We've heard much in recent weeks about the need to create a new economy, the time for previously unimagined companies to come to the fore. Seems this Cornish business has been doing that for years."
She contacted iPM with this email:
"Hello.
So I don't know if any of your listeners (or collegues) can help me...
Saturday mornings, circa 1980, I would "help" Mum in the kitchen (I was 5) and she would be listening to Radio 4.
There was a particular theme tune, that featured a pipping flute. I know nothing about music, but I shall not let that stop me from trying to describe it!
The pipping flute would play down (1-2-3), up (1-2-3), down (1-2-3), up (1-2-3) and then a trill (with a falling note). It would repeat, then play the same refrain with higher notes and a dramatic fouth phrase.
The flute phrases would then be repeated with soaring strings in the background, to which I would dance, as if at a ball! The strings shared the qualities of the Cinderella theme, maybe that's why I loved it so.
I have searched the internet in vain for more info, and got very excited when the classic Radio 4 theme tune was put up on Youtube. So far though, I have not found the name of the show (i'm sure it was broadcast at 9am on Saturdays) however I only have to think of the tune and my childhood comes flooding back.
If you could ask around, it would mean a great deal to me to be able to share it with my own 5 year old!
Thank you,
Viv B."
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Conservative Liberal Democrat coalition negotiations
Agreements reached
11 May 2010
This document sets out agreements reached between the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats on a range of issues. These are the issues that needed to be resolved between us in order for us to work together as a strong and stable government. It will be followed in due course by a final Coalition Agreement, covering the full range of policy and including foreign, defence and domestic policy issues not covered in this document.
1. Deficit Reduction
In some cultures, silver is more valuable than gold.
I would struggle to name those cultures but let's just say that's correct.
We didn't bring home the bacon in the Best News and Current Affairs Programme, but the judges did say there was a "real sense of community among the programmes listeners." They also "wished to commend the reporting of Hugh Sykes - his attention to detail paints very clear pictures." Blog readers will know that not only does he paint very clear pictures on the radio, he's a dab hand with photographs.
Here for example is a blog posting from January:
As Hugh reported last night: "For many Yemenis, al Qaeda is the least of their problems. There is intense poverty, widespread malnutrition, unemployment, deep corruption, a violent conflict with separatists in the south, and a war against the Zaidi in the north who want recognition for their version of Shia Islam in this mostly Sunni country.
On top of all that, Yemen relies on oil for most of its income and there's only about five years of Yemeni oil left ...and....water is running out....the aquifers are also expected to run dry in five years. In one southern town there has been no tap water for two months. There've been water riots."
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Here are Hugh's promised photos of Sana'a in the daylight, and a few words:
"Tower houses made of stone and brick, with stained glass windows:
and narrow alleys between them:
and football in the rain:
and dear friendly children - nearly half Yemen's population of about 20 million are...under fifteen years old:
Here are Mohammed and Ahmed, aged 10 and 12, who were on PM talking about the donkey they look after:
And this another Ahmed, who roams the alleys selling boiled eggs. He told me he'd rather be in school:
And here's a boy minding a rope shop for his brother
It is heart-warming to be in a place where children simply run up to you and start chatting - or grinning from doorways:
And finally, some more donkeys. I like donkeys."
The compilation that brought PM the Sony nomination is here:
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There are six items on the recording above. Here are some details, including the date and time of their transmission.
"1.05/02/2009 17:54
Chesley Sullenberger saved the lives of 155 people by an emergency plane landing on the Hudson River. This montage of recordings offers an insight into what was going on in the cockpit and control towers in the moments before.
2.05/06/2009 17:21
On the day of the local election results, a discussion with the deputy leader of the Labour party Harriet Harman, the Conservative party chairman Eric Pickles, and the Liberal Democrat ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Affairs spokesman Chris Huhne.
3.12/06/2009 17:20
On election day in Iran, Hugh Sykes reports live from Tehran. He witnesses the lack of voter privacy at polling stations and the potentially confusing ballot papers.
4.21/12/2009 17:37
'Upshares, Downshares' started as a specialist segment of the programme to reflect the importance of the credit crisis to all our lives. Listeners spontaneously started to send in their own arrangements of the Upstairs, Downstairs theme tune. We talked to the composer Alexander Faris.
5.23/09/2009 17:25
In a report on the problems suffered by children whose brother or sister is killed by their parents, our social policy correspondent Kim Catcheside elicits testimony from a woman who adopted siblings who've been through some disturbing experiences.
6.22/12/2009 17:16
The former Cabinet minister John Hutton is invited to admit that he really did once say Gordon Brown would be a 'f***ing disaster' as Prime Minister."
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It's all moving. It's 4pm and the programme is changing shape as I speak. Tell us what you thought - but forgive a sense of confusion.......
Eloise Twisk is editing.
sequin
While Ed has a lie down ( he did go to the Sony ceremony last night) it's me in the PM chair today with Eloise Twisk editing. If you have any ideas, let us know, though I suspect there may be more than a little politics in this evening's programme.
Speak later,
sequin
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We'll have an hour-long programme with the latest news on the post-election results.
iPM won't appear this week but I DO recommend a special election version of our regular Your News. Read by the First Lady of Election Night, Carolyn Quinn, it gives a unique snapshot of what our listeners did on May 7th....we even get insights into the privacy of the ballot booth.
And here are photos Carolyn sent yesterday of the media operation on College Green at Westminster.
This is the television operation:
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We're already hard at work in the PM office, preparing a programme which will begin as usual at 1700, but returning after The Six O'Clock News.
Mr Numbers, Phil Cowley will be on hand. The celebrated PM Panel of Lord Steele, Baroness Prosser and Lord Parkinson will give us their verdict too.
It promises to be a a busy and important day. Join us at 5, when we'll do our best to make sense of the day's events.
The polls have closed. The votes are being counted.
You can play here.
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By popular demand, here again is the unedited version of Ms Quinn and Mr Mair showing you round the election nerve centre. We're playing the edited version on PM tonight.
As I explained in this post, everyone was rather tired...
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Tonight, Andrew Bomford reports for PM from Alabama on the aftermath of the oil spill.
He's sent this for the blog:
"Troops from the Alabama National Guard are frantically building a wall around key parts of Dauphin island off the Alabama coast to keep the oil off the beaches. These structures are normally used in Iraq to make blast walls, but here they are filling them with sand and pouring a chemical on top which is designed to solidify when it comes into contact with oil.
Empty Beaches on this beautiful resort island. Hotel owners and local businesses are very worried because holidaymakers have been cancelling their trips here for fear of the oncoming oil slick."
will feature in tonight's report.
and .
This is an Election-free zone.
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A word of explanation...
You may have read your morning paper and listened to the radio, and have some ideas you want to hear on PM tonight.
Perhaps you have a question about something in the news you would like answered - or better still, direct experience of something topical. Or maybe there's an aspect to a big story you haven't heard explored that you would like to hear.
The PM team will meet in a real glass box at 11am. Why not be part of the meeting by sharing your thoughts in this virtual glass box? We don't really look in after 11am so please be prompt!
Every night after PM finishes, the production team gathers in a glass box to discuss the programme that's just finished.
THIS is your opportunity to do the same. Please leave your comment for tonight's editor Amanda Lewis to read.
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...the full horror of what happened when two rather tired presenters tried to record a short piece for Thursday's PM.
You may have read your morning paper and listened to the radio, and have some ideas you want to hear on PM tonight.
Perhaps you have a question about something in the news you would like answered - or better still, direct experience of something topical. Or maybe there's an aspect to a big story you haven't heard explored that you would like to hear.
The PM team will meet in a real glass box at 11am. Why not be part of the meeting by sharing your thoughts in this virtual glass box? We don't really look in after 11am so please be prompt!
Every night after PM finishes, the production team gathers in a glass box to discuss the programme that's just finished.
THIS is your opportunity to do the same. Please leave your comment for tonight's editor Roger Sawyer to read.
I'm hoping (though I can't say for certain) that our bloggy problems have been fixed. Whether and when this box appears will be a clue.
You may have read your morning paper and listened to the radio, and have some ideas you want to hear on PM tonight.
Perhaps you have a question about something in the news you would like answered - or better still, direct experience of something topical. Or maybe there's an aspect to a big story you haven't heard explored that you would like to hear.
The PM team will meet in a real glass box at 11am. Why not be part of the meeting by sharing your thoughts in this virtual glass box? We don't really look in after 11am so please be prompt!
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