Pssst! Can You Keep A Secret?
Simon Mayo
Presenter
Them cyclists are on the way and I'm wondering if I have time to jostle for position down The Mall. Could someone reserve me a space? Maybe a rug on the ground with a flask and some salad in a tupperware box with a pasty and a few salt and vinegar crisps? That would be lovely, let me know when you're there, thanks.
Hope you all had a lovely weekend, enjoying the weather/tennis/F1/cycling/school fete/garden/reserving of spaces on the Mall. We have a lovely week planned her on Drivetime with a top notch guest today-Stella Rimmington the former head of MI5. She's been writing books for a while now and there's a new spy novel out called Close Call.
And when you're reading it, because you know that she knows what she's talking about, it really has that ring of authenticity. She was the first head of MI5 to be named while in post, the first to have a photcall and the first to publish a memoir. And just a little of the inspiration behind Judi Dench's M in James Bond. So some spy talk from 6 and some SPYING/MI5 oldies would help us nicely!
Rendezvous 1700, usual place. I'll be wearing a smoky fedora.
