NYC - QE2

[Tom Roche]

At 6:22 AM -0400 5/4/0, Stuart McHugh  wrote:
>   From: <Stuart@...n.co.uk>
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>>Has Peel mentioned on-air this trip to New York he is taking soon?
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>I thnik he mentioned it in his Radio Times column, in relation to his fear
>of flying.

Well this fear of flying story does start to sound like a broken record... I mean he flew to Zimbabwe  in 1980-something, which would give even a regular airline passenger pause.

I'd hesitated to mention the trip here because a two months back on a Saturday, on a whim, I rang Peel up at home, using an old number from a visit long ago I did not expect to work. "Of course it works; we're not going anywhere" he said. This NYC trip had just been set up, he'll only be there one night and then the QE2 sails. Still, it will be his first visit to this soil since his late sixties exit from the San Bernadino California radio scene. 

He said, and again I hesitate a little because he is on this list could read this (even though he never gave us the list of the various radio programs he does we-I asked for,) he said for years he had no interest in seeing the US again at all. But now, passing 60, he is newly curious at what Texas must look like today, and how enjoyable it might be to take the Pig around to the smalltown places where he used to sell insurance. I said ISDN's run anywhere - do yer damn show from Dallas no problem. Also suggested the SXSW festival.

I suspect that after the Radio Times coulmn about the Concorde, and the column about the QE2, and the one about about NYC cabbies, and the later columns about NYC radio and NYC hotels we'll know plenty.... 

tom