[peel] Re: Babs

[Philip Edwards]

I also distinctly remember this Stuart and it was in a post in this group.
I also remember recounting this story to some colleagues. But now the memory
fades.
I vaguely recollect that he stood in when someone failed to show for a
lecture on the QE II and that 2 of the other speakers were Barry Norman and
David Attenborough? and that Peel's talk was best received.
Phil


On 12 April 2010 09:38, Stuart Mchugh <stuart@...> wrote:

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>   Re the Classic Ships series, he told us once that after it was broadcast
> he regularly received invitations to come and open yachting regattas and the
> like from people who assumed he must be a sailing fan, and he would write
> back and say that the only ships he was interested in were the ones that had
> a cinema and duty-free shops...
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> On that tack, I'm pretty sure John once 'did' a cruise, probably
> cross-atlantic as a way to get him to New York without having to fly - it
> was if I recall right one of those big boats with cinemas, sops, and a
> lecture theatre, where he'd doubtless have delivered lectures on music and
> life alongside the likes of Michael Parkinson and Joan Bakewell (probably).
> If I didn't dream this, it'd have been a bit later on, when the cruise
> liner audience would have heard of him via his non-Radio One shows.
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