The Other One
Simon Mayo
Presenter
A warm week of September weather ahead, a day in Hyde Park and some lovely shows planned...hope the weekend was tiptop. Here it was taxi and pick up service, a few words of a story and a re-watching of Speed, the Sandra Bullock/Keanu Reeves action pic from, unbelievably, 1994. Child 1 had seen it but child 3 hadn't (what with it having a few Sofie Grâbøl-style words here and there. Actually everywhere). Still a tense, exciting movie even when you know what happens-apart from the silly final 20 minutes. Only the size of the mobile phones and weediness of the computers gave the game away that it is 20 years old. Good grief.
Book club today with David Mitchell talking The Bone Clocks. It defies easy description. So I won't bother except to say that there's a chapter here if you fancy diving into the extraordinary world that David Mitchell (not that one) has created. It is composed of 6 parts, each of which tells part of the story of teenage runaway Holly Sykes. There is some very weird stuff going on in this universe that DM has created and you never know what is about to happen-it really is brilliant. Try some today!
Right then pop pickers. How about BACK TO NATURE oldies? Kate Humble has said she likes to commune with wildlife and nature by going around naked when she can. Well really. Let's see what you make of that...
5pm then
