This is just the most amazing and inspiring video I have ever seen.
If you have a few minutes, I would highly recommend you take time to view it.
It might just make your day, or at least inspire you. https://t.co/vpMADUXeWS
#SixNations2026 Once ball is down over goal line and ref blows for a try, why do we need to have TMO interfering?
Short of an off-ball incident between players in lead up, when ref blows for try it should stand. If ref is not sure they should call for TMO before awarding a try.
@RizLateef Hi Riz. Had to head out before the end of your show today.
Just wanted to wish you a happy Christmas and say thank you for your Friday breakfast shows this year. Always a bright & positive way to start a Friday!
@savebutterflies Always been my favourite butterfly since I developed a love for them as a child watching them on the Buddlea in my grandparents garden over 50 years ago. Great picture, btw.
@CrowleyOnAir@BBCRadioLondon Hi Gary. Would you be able to post a picture of the two old bakelite radios that you just talked about on the Robert Elms show?
I love old radios like this and would love to see them. Thanks.
Btw, I may be able to point you in the direction of someone who could restore them.
@CarlBovisNature We have at least one family here that seem to be here all year round.
Sadly one of their youngsters flew into one of our windows and broke his neck. We gave him a decent burial. โฅ๏ธ
Absolute rubbish. It won't stop illegal working as it does not now plus this continual sleepwalking into mandatory smartphones/Internet has just gone to another level.
Unless, of course, Labour want to pay for smartphones for everyone to enable this? Thought not .... #DigitalID
@TravelodgeUK Just wanted to give a shout out to one of your colleagues at St Albans central hotel who kindly lent me their own USB cable when I was staying last night as I forgot mine.
Life safe as have lots of tickets on my phone for travels over next few days. #aboveandbeyond
Interesting that @Ryanair@RyanairPress calling for @NATS boss to resign because of flight delays.
So should Michael O'Leary resign when my late in the day Ryanair flights are continually delayed?
Thought not..... #ukflightdelays
@MysteriosoX I agree. It is my favourite too.
After a longer break than usual between novels, he returned with FoG that took the level of detail to a new level, even for him.
๐ The Master of The Chase Bows Out
RIP #FredrickForsyth
Frederick Forsyth did not write books so much as conduct operations on the page. Cold precision, no sentimental detours, always the scent of truth beneath the fiction. He gave us The Day of the Jackal and in doing so, rewired the thriller. Not for fireworks or cheap adrenaline, but for the clean tension of logistics, timing and cold steel purpose.
He understood men who vanish into crowds and reappear with a single job to do. His characters did not rant, they calculated. He made you believe a lone assassin could shift history with nothing more than patience and a forged passport.
Forsyth brought MI6 training to his prose, and you could feel it. Not in crude name-dropping but in the clipped authenticity of how things worked. No wonder later revelations confirmed he had worked for the intelligence services, slipping behind curtains few novelists even recognise.
He mistrusted governments and sniffed at the fashionable posturing of the day. In his writing, the world was a place of grey decisions, rarely good, rarely evil, just necessity.
He did not chase literary prizes, he chased story, and he made the rest follow. Forsyth wrote like a man with a plan. Every page moved forward. No self-indulgence, no padding, just the disciplined beat of inevitability.
We are left with thrillers that still stand like monuments, not to fantasy, but to what might just be. He didnโt show off, he showed how itโs done.
@RobPerroneShow I remember listening to your show on 9/11 on BBC 3CR that day on my way home.
FF was also on 3CR few days later saying he had thought of the idea of flying a plane into a skyscraper as part of plot for a novel though decided not to as he thought it might give terrorists ideas.
So sad to hear of Freddie's passing.
My favourite author. The research he put into his novels was amazing. I have read them all though especially love The Fourth Protocol, Fist of God and Icon which I have read many times.
@MuseumofBrands So enjoyed our visit yesterday and it was nice to meet Robert while we were walking around.
Thank you for a wonderful trip down memory lane!