Paper Monitor
11:10 UK time, Tuesday, 28 November 2006
A service highlighting the riches of the daily press.
Defection, it’s the name of the game today.
But before Mr Grade makes a call which cannot be refused (Note to MG: Address is the.magazine@bbc.co.uk, please make your subject line "Lucre"), Paper Monitor will eschew the delights of the newspapers and instead defect to bring you a round-up of nuggets from the outer reaches of the ±«Óătv's very own websites!
From the ±«Óătv Weather Centre, what’s the forecast for… picking a place at random… Ashby de la Zouch? It’s a mixed bag today in Adrian Mole’s hometown, with lightning, thunder clouds AND sunshine on the cards.
Seeking a diversion while supping a scalding Nescafe from its checked Thermos, Paper Monitor logs onto the CBeebies site to play the Koala Brothers’ game. Can Frank and Buster pick up the parcels dropped when the postbag came apart while delivering mail to the homestead?
Left a bit…
… ah - got one! Right again…
… well, about half ended up smashed on the parched earth of the Outback. Never mind.
And in , a spin of the mouse picks… Yemen at random. What factoids can Paper Monitor pick up about the reputed home of the Queen of Sheba? Fancy that, “the custom of chewing the narcotic plant khat in the afternoons is still widely observed”.
And in Paper Monitor’s stablemate, the Editors’ blog, a pun worthy of Punorama - Grade expectations.
Enough of this. It’s so long from Paper Monitor, and it’s auf wiedersehen, good night from Michael Grade.
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