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Hello,

Fantastic pictures of foam in the papers today. At first glance it looked like Blackpool had been hit by a snowstorm. You might want to amuse yourself today with a flick through the BBC's UK news photos of the year, it being December 30th and all that.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/in-pictures-16267241

We've got an interesting take on the official papers released as always at this time of year under the 30 year rule.

It's not about Margaret Thatcher's ironing board, but about spooks, the government, the BBC and Panorama. Here's how our correspondent Gordon Corera explains it:

The BBC Director General personally intervened to censor a Panorama programme on Britain's intelligence agencies, official papers reveal. The then Director General Sir Ian Trethowan was put under pressure by government to deal with rising concern over a programme broadcast in 1981. According to the papers, Trethowan told the press that no one from the government had seen the film and that there had been no pressure from the government on the BBC, something which the papers make clear was not the case.

We'll be talking to the reporter on Panorama at the time, Tom Mangold.

Also this evening:
*the latest of Eddie's interviews with people for whom 2011 was unforgettable. He hears from a prominent member of the Occupy movement.
*we explore the debate about gender-based marketing of toys - remember the toyshop Hamleys decided to stop the practice of having separate floors for girls (pink) and boys (full of trains and tanks).
* and after a darts player blamed an attractive woman in the front row for putting him off his game, we're thinking of doing more on "great sporting excuses of our time. "

And we look back at the best of "Previously on PM" over the past year.

Join us if you can at 5

Carolyn

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Hello,

The PM team are beavering away finding goodies to fill this afternoon's programme.

Already we know we've got another of Eddie's end of year interviews - today he hears from Pauline Pearce who made her mark during the summer riots by ranting at the looting going on around her in Hackney.

I'll be recording an interview with the Health Secretary Andrew Lansley about the new year message from the NHS Confederation Chief Executive Mike Farrar. He's warned of a potential loss of confidence in the NHS unless political and healthcare leaders make a "compelling case to the public for changes to the delivery of services". Mr Farrar argues that resouces must be shifted into community based-services, early intervention and self care to allow more people to be allowed out of hospital and treated at home.

Lots of the newspapers report on a "mystery man" who handed out envelopes containing a £50 note to shoppers at a Tesco store in Sampford Peverell in Devon. Is it a true story? Did you or anyone you know receive any money from the man? Can we track him down to ask him why he did it?

Also we're keeping an eye on any developments in Syria and asking a former foreign office adviser who's met President Bashar al-Assad whether negotiations should take place with Assad to bring an end to the violence in Syria. Are there any incentives that could be offered - or indeed should any incentives be offered to him? Can you do deals with a dictator?

We are a work in progress. Join us to see what happens at 5.

Carolyn

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The PM day after day after Boxing Day Newsletter

Hello.

PM's Editor, Joanna Carr, received an unfortunate gift in her Christmas stocking. A plastic set of hands tied together on a stick. When shaken it makes a clapping noise. Good ideas in the morning meeting were greeted with a "clap". She shook it several times before we confiscated it.

One of the ideas we had, after reading Nick Clegg's New Year message to the nation, was asking you what YOUR New Year message to the politicians might be. Keep it clean please. Email your suggestions, as we're thinking of compiling them for a list later in the week.

Tonight we're hoping to examine the proposal by the incoming head of Ofsted, Sir Michael Wilshaw, to create a network of local commissioners to keep an eye on standards and performance of academy schools, and intervene where schools are failing or coasting.

We'll get the latest from Syria and the financial markets which reopen today; we meet Elvis the lawnmower-attacking crocodile in Australia; and we ask who owns your Twitter followers if you move from one company to another.

And Eddie has left us another gem of an interview. It's with a youth leader in Norway recalling the day in July when a group of students were massacred by a lone gunman on a holiday island.

See you at 5pm,

Carolyn

P.S. there's a piece of chocolate cake left on the desk if anyone wants it?*

*Editor's note- get to it before Shaun Ley.

PM's Boxing Day Newsletter

Hello from PM,

As you read this, a small team's working to bring you a Boxing Day PM. As well as offering the day's news, we've also got some treats we've been working on for weeks.

+ Syria. As more Arab observers are due to arrive there, Eddie's been speaking to a French photographer who spent weeks undercover. His images have been credited with bringing global attention to single events that would otherwise have passed by forgotten.

+ Prince Philip. HRH has spent a third night in hospital, and is still said to be in "good spirits." We'll bring you the latest health bulletin, and also we'll ask how to calm the nerves of a patient who doesn't want to stay in bed on Boxing Day.

+ Nigeria. Mourning continues after Christians celebrating Christmas were targeted by Islamist extremists.

+ British Politics. Our three veteran PM panellists read the traditional tea leaves.

+ Advice please on re-gifting. The writer Alexander McCall Smith has publicly questioned when is it appropriate to pass along a Christmas present you do not like, want or need?

Here's to you for reading this, fighting long queues and dealing with a transport strike to get to this newsletter.

Paddy O'Connell and PM team, Amanda, Manveen and Rebecca.

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Hello.

If you know what Festivus is, you should tune our way tonight. Also in the programme, the most previous Previously on PM we've done. Plus another short story inspired by a listener and...brace yourself for Monday's programme when our famous political panel of Lord Parkinson, Baroness Prosser and Lord Steel will hold forth on the year gone and the year ahead.

But look you haven't come here for that. This is the moment we've all been waiting for - the final line for our Christmas limerick.

We've already had:

"A CHRISTMASSY ELF NICKNAMED PESTO
HAD A FEW THINGS TO GET OFF HIS CHEST-O"
HE WHIPPED OFF HIS VEST
ON WHICH HE'D WRITTEN IN JEST"

Among the suggestions:

"I love Eddie Mair, he's the Best-O" (Sarah Urmson)
"The 'Eddie for Mayor' manifesto" (Stephen Salter)
"His banking reform manifesto." (Lynwen Davison)
"Ladies - it's time to come play with the Bizzo" (Rupert Allman...hello Rupert!)
"Your money has all gone a-Westo" (Jane Johnson)
"When it's warm you can't beat alfresco" (Stephen John Ashmore and Carole Day)
"'Tis my job to make you depressedo!" (Nicholas Hely-Hutchinson)
"Add an R to my name and - Hey Presto!" (Ivan Laybourne)

But the winner - and thank goodness there's no prize because we can't face the BBC paperwork - is Clive Osborne. Here is the limerick in full:

"A CHRISTMASSY ELF NICKNAMED PESTO
HAD A FEW THINGS TO GET OFF HIS CHEST-O"
HE WHIPPED OFF HIS VEST
ON WHICH HE'D WRITTEN IN JEST
LET IT SNOW OR I'LL TAKE OFF THE REST-O"

Thanks to everyone who took part and our congratulations to Clive who can expect a magnum of Champagne any day now. Not from us, however, but because someone he knows may have sent him one. I have no idea.

If you're looking for a Christmas Eve treat, why not swing iPM's way tomorrow at 0545 or 17.30 on Radio 4 when we'll bring our listeners' sentences to life.

And if you are looking to feel a bit down on Christmas Night, can I warmly recommend the News Review of the Year at 22.00 on Radio 4 in which I'll be reflecting on twelve months of death, despair and misery.

Ebenezer Muir

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PM Newsletter

Hello.

In the programme tonight, we've got two interviews with two rather interesting people.

Sir Gus O'Donnell is stepping down as Cabinet Secretary at the end of the year. I've just recorded an interview with him in which he talks about Scottish independence, the West Lothian question, Prime Ministerial biographies, the size of his pension, who's in charge if something ghastly happens to a Prime Minister, and what he thinks of being called GOD. It's his only broadcast interview and you'll hear it first in PM tonight.

You can also hear from someone whose name you probably don't recognise. Amy Cooney lives in New Zealand. When the earthquake hit Christchurch on the 22nd of February she was just starting her shift, with her brother, running a bar. She has quite a story, and as you'll hear, is quite a woman.

As for the fourth line of the Christmas limerick....we had some great suggestions. Remember where we got up to:

"A CHRISTMASSY ELF NICKNAMED PESTO
HAD A FEW THINGS TO GET OFF HIS CHEST-O"
HE WHIPPED OFF HIS VEST

Among the suggestions, Ivan with "proclaiming with zest"
Alison Arthur: Tattoo-ed "PM's the BEST"
Judy Berry: 'And, oh dear, you've guessed ...'
Ian Ray: "saying French made are best"
Catherine Warwick: "At Eddie's request"
Kevin Thorpe: "And then all the rest"
Mark Richards: "To reveal he had breasts"
Miles Harrison: "and you'd never have guessed"
Isabel Rogers: "God, I'm depressed!"
Rod Behr: "Socks, pants and the rest"
Sir Peter Bottomley: "But protected the rest/ Wrote his name, self-addressed/He was no Beau Geste/Made his love manifest"
Lucien: "Revealing six of the best"

But you know what, we've chosen Mike Massey's suggestion: "On which he'd written in jest".

So your challenge is to come up with a fifth line:

"A CHRISTMASSY ELF NICKNAMED PESTO
HAD A FEW THINGS TO GET OFF HIS CHEST-O"
HE WHIPPED OFF HIS VEST
ON WHICH HE'D WRITTEN IN JEST"

Good luck!

Eric

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PM Newsletter

Hello.

A nice early newsletter today so you have as much time as possible to give you time to consider the next line of our Christmas limerick.

We already have:

"A CHRISTMASSY ELF NICKNAMED PESTO
HAD A FEW THINGS TO GET OFF HIS CHEST-O"

To which we add this promising line from Keith and Gill Stone:

"He whipped off his vest..."

So what do you suggest for line four?

"A Christmassy elf nicknamed Pesto,
Had a few things to get off his chesto-o,
He whipped off his vest"

See you at 5,

Eric

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Hello,
A pre-Christmas feast for you; Piers Morgan, pensions negotiations and North Korea will feature this evening.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-16261060
We're trying to see if we can track down anyone who knew Kim Jong Un - the "Great Successor" when he was at school in Switzerland. (And did his father really order that each grain of rice should be weighed and measured to ensure consistency??)

A report into the August riots says police could have used water cannon, plastic bullets and even firearms, PM will hear from Sir Hugh Orde, President of the Association of Chief Police Officers and former Chief Constable of the Police Service of Northern Ireland.

We've also got an interview with Richard Adams, the author of Watership Down, the tale of rabbits on the run after developers move in. Now in a case of art mirroring life, West Berkshire council is planning to build homes on the land where the fictional bunnies once lived.

Eddie's away - only for one day - entrusting us with the delicate task of choosing line 2 of the Christmas limerick. Line one you'll remember was: "A CHRISTMASSY ELF NICKNAMED PESTO ...."

We've had more than a few suggestions for line two - including this from our Business Editor Robert Peston himself:

…"WARNED THERE'S NO MONEY LEFT IN THE WEST-O"

Eddie has exercised his veto on that. Sorry Robert. Here are some others though..

gossipmistress: "…Had a painfully small manifesto"
Georgina Pritchard: … Explained fiscal twisters with zesto"
Miles Harrison: .." was encouraged to give it a rest-oh"
Janet Long: " …was so saucy he thought he was besto".
Martin Hughes: "… was loading his parcels with gusto".
Mike Sargent: " …had a cough and a very sore chesto".
Doug Read: "…. said let's put the banks to the testo".
Sean Muirhead: " …was last-minute shopping at Tesco".

But our winner today is Kerry Dutton with :

"A CHRISTMASSY ELF NICKNAMED PESTO
HAD A FEW THINGS TO GET OFF HIS CHEST-O"

Email your suggested THIRD LINE ONLY to pm@bbc.co.uk. Please put "pointless Christmas limerick thing" in the subject line.

I thank you.
Carolyn

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Hello,

Me again.

After a LOT of TOP LEVEL people here at the BBC have suggested the first line should be:

"A Christmassy elf nicknamed Pesto"

in order for it to scan properly.

Thank you.

Eric

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PM Newsletter

Hello.

Three things.

1: Starting this Wednesday on PM, a series of interviews for the festive season.

2: This Christmas Eve, iPM (0545 and 17.30) takes Your News to a whole new level. We've taken the sentences sent in by listeners and created something rather special.

3: I can't be bothered to tell you about tonight's PM but wonder if you'd be interested in taking part in a pointless Christmas limerick thing. I'll start us off with the opening line, and you can get your creative juices flowing by suggesting a second line. Tomorrow, Carolyn will choose a winner, thus inviting the third line. And so it will go on until we pass out with excitement.

So here we go:

"A Christmas elf nicknamed Pesto,"

Email your suggested second line to pm@bbc.co.uk. Please put "pointless Christmas limerick thing" in the subject line.

Robert Muir

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Friday's PM Newsletter

Hello.

Sorry for the slightly late newsletter. I'm a bit worried I'm the love child of Sir Jimmy Savile.

What happens when you get a French MP (from Mr Sarkozy's party) and a British Eurosceptic MP together to discuss relations between the two countries? Find out in PM at 5.

Also in the programme, the trial of Bradley Manning. We'll hear Christopher Hitchens in his own words. And this week's Previously on PM will be introduced by Larry King. Yes, that Larry King. Oh and we'll have a report on those pandas.

Yesterday, I should have sent a link to THIS Billie Jo Spears song. What was I thinking? Http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6O4BJSZn4og&feature=fvst

See you at 5,

Eric Gingrich

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Hello.

Have you ever been THIS lost?: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2074156/Lost-pensioner-Dennis-Leighton-spends-TWO-DAYS-driving-M25.html?ito=feeds-newsxml

I once got completely lost whilst walking in a fog-bound part of northern Norway. No compass (stupid me), no phone signal to give me a map and fog so thick you could have knitted it. By sheer luck I found my way back to the car, which I'd assumed was in the opposite direction. Can you top that? And is it ever nice to be lost? PM@bbc.co.uk.

In the programme tonight, Hugh Sykes on an important day for Iraq. We'll look at the Westminster government's plan for families. We'll have a look too at Mr Putin's appearance on a TV phone-in.

Not in the programme, but I wanted to mention it, country star Billie Jo Spears has died. Http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-16193947
Enjoy one of her hits here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18oflu6PLEA

See you at 5,

Eric Parton.

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Hello,

We've just finished watching PMQs. We'd like to talk further tonight about the latest unemployment figures, and the way that women in particular are being affected.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-16175309

Also tonight….. should "no begging zones" be set up in London - it's happening in Paris.

Hugh Sykes reports from Baghdad as American troops prepare to withdraw from Iraq.

We read this on the Press Association this morning:

Journalists and legal commentators no longer have to make an application for
permission to Twitter, text or email from court, the Lord Chief Justice
announced today.

As he handed down new guidance on using laptops and hand-held devices to
communicate directly from courts in England and Wales, Lord Judge told reporters
present: "Twitter as much as you like from today."
We've asked our legal correspondent Clive Coleman to look into this and examine whether, in the age of the internet, twitter and online blogging, the law of contempt of court can remain relevant and enforceable?

And… a butter crisis in Norway - why do Norwegians have to cook 7 Christmas cakes? We provide the answers tonight.

Join us if you can at 5.

Carolyn

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Hello,

We've just finished watching PMQs. We'd like to talk further tonight about the latest unemployment figures, and the way that women in particular are being affected.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-16175309

Also tonight….. should "no begging zones" be set up in London - it's happening in Paris.

Hugh Sykes reports from Baghdad as American troops prepare to withdraw from Iraq.

We read this on the Press Association this morning:

Journalists and legal commentators no longer have to make an application for
permission to Twitter, text or email from court, the Lord Chief Justice
announced today. As he handed down new guidance on using laptops and hand-held devices to communicate directly from courts in England and Wales, Lord Judge told reporters present: "Twitter as much as you like from today."

We've asked our legal correspondent Clive Coleman to look into this and examine whether, in the age of the internet, twitter and online blogging, the law of contempt of court can remain relevant and enforceable?

And… a butter crisis in Norway - why do Norwegians have to cook 7 Christmas cakes? We provide the answers tonight.

Join us if you can at 5.

Carolyn

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Hello,
For those of you who require a warning to prepare yourself for Eddie's absence - herewith, said warning. Like Santa Claus he has to spend a lot of time preparing all those gifts to bring you over Christmas. He'll be back later in the week.

So tonight what do we have for you? Professor Brian Cox will be talking to us live - explaining all about the latest BIG thing in particle physics. Scientists at the large hadron collider near Geneva are expected to present preliminary evidence today that the Higgs boson has been glimpsed. I'll obviously ask Prof Cox what it is and why it matters. But what other questions would you like to put to him? Let me know.

Also this evening - the end of Nazi hunting; the latest from the Leveson inquiry and advice on how to regenerate Britain's high streets - from retail expert Mary Portas. She's recommended a series of measures, including the easing of restrictions on traders. Here's the verdict from one emailer to PM - Philip Collie.

"Here's some reasons why I don't care whether "the High Street" survives. I walk up and down my High St to and from work and lunch, ie 4 times a day…
Two pubs stand face to face at one end – the day-long drinkers shouting at passers-by or being questioned by police
Smokers use their trips between shops to foul the air
Charity muggers try to arrest me every day with their fake bon homie
The choice in High St shops is poor and widely dispersed
I never know where to look for anything
The weather during Christmas shopping is foul
No-one stocks trousers for my long legs
The music in shops is uniformly disgusting – especially at Christmas
The shopping traffic makes crossing roads unpleasant
etc
As for the cultural argument – what culture is there in the High St? Busking is all I'm aware of in mine: sometimes enjoyable, but it would not be missed. In the 25 years I've lived in Cheltenham I don't remember there ever being an art gallery in the shopping area of town (the municipal one is outside it). No music venues either (ditto). The theatre is relatively central but hardly attracts shoppers as it operates different hours.

Personally I'd prefer to see all the shops in the town centre closed and do all my shopping online. Then I could walk to and from work in peace and quiet.

It would be more productive to set up mall teams rather than town centre ones: build phones apps so we can find items in shops, encourage buskers, offer some cheaper rental space for smaller providers, put on more family-friendly films during the day, offer interactivity via feedback polls on phones - anyway, not my field, but the point is that people prefer malls – let's make them more attractive: to people like me!"
Philip Collie

Food for thought.
Hear what we do on the subject at 5.
Carolyn

PM Newsletter

Hello from PM,

We go to air as the other PM has just explained his Euro-vision* to the House of Commons. We'll sum up this afternoon's debate over Europe, and listen to the main arguments made. We're also interested in the people queuing for the Strangers Gallery today: do they think the UK is at a crossroads?

It's also a busy afternoon at the Leveson Inquiry into hacking. As I type, the former chief reporter of the News Of The World Neville Thurlbeck is giving evidence, and due to legal proceedings, he won't be asked about phone hacking.

Our Correspondent Frank Gardner is meeting the King of Bahrain and the Leader of the Opposition, and we hope to hear from him in the latest effort to take the temperature of the Arab "Spring."

We're looking into claims that the popular Frozen Planet series on BBC TV is in hot waters with some viewers. Scenes of baby polar bears in their nest were filmed in captivity rather than in the wild. (Getting into a polar bear's den, moving the mother bear aside, and pointing a lens at her babes is quite a task.) Whilst it's plain from the programme's website that the team explained they used animals in a "controlled environment" in a German animal park, it's claimed that some viewers would not have known this watching the episode itself.

I'm sitting in for Eddie Mair, and he's much taller than I thought, since I can't reach the keyboard easily and his screen is a long way above me. Quite fitting really.

Please tune in to see what really happens.

Paddy O'Connell

*This is not the same as Eurovision.

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Hello.

Is it windy with you?

We'll have coverage of the stormy weather which pretty much explains why there's no sun up in the sky. This just in: "FROM MET OFFICE (VIA TWITTER)
Aonach Mor in the Highlands (elevation 1200m) has reported a wind gust of 130 mph. Some lowland gusts now above 70 mph."

There'll be a lot of euro stuff too of course. I've JUST been speaking to a listener who heard our item this week about concrete blocks being thrown onto cars and has quite a tale of his own.

Plus: bendy buses, is it possible to sort out the euro over dinner, and a report from Orla about Sesame Street.

See you at 5,

Eric

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Hello.

What with one thing and another, this newsletter is rather late. But perhaps it's more exciting. We're very close to transmission - it is 16.13 as I write.

I can tell you Europe is our lead story. Fiona is busy editing an opening sequence of questions from PMQs. Jane Peel will report on a meeting we expect to happen while we are on air, in a tent near St Paul's Cathedral. What's a senior figure from the FSA doing in there?

Plus Barbara Walters appears on PM. I forget who she is talking to.

Jon Manel who's done a lot of work on phone hacking, with news of fresh developments.

Also - a new scheme to make good use of seized counterfeit goods.

And the woman who's campaigning to make it easier to have her husband declared dead.

And if you're still reading - have you noticed how some airlines have different rules on when and whether you should turn off your phone or mobile device on board? We'll talk about that. Feel free to email pm@bbc.co.uk. Our inspiration was this:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-16063586

OK, now it's 1618. I'm off to make-up

Eric

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PM Newsletter

Hello.

Please just assume that throughout the week, our programmes will be talking a lot about the euro crisis. That includes tonight.

We'll also look at Afghanistan as interested parties meet in Bonn - ten years after a similar gathering.

The pay gap between the highest and lowest earners in the UK has grown more quickly than in any other high-income country since 1975, according to a report by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. We'll debate whether the gap matters.

Plus - have you ever gone into a bookshop, taken the advice of the experts there, browsed for hours, flicked through some pages, perhaps being impressed with the lists of staff recommendations....only to leave the store and buy the book online? You're not alone, it seems: http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/12/04/book-shopping-in-stores-then-buying-online/ We'll discuss whether such behaviour is ethical.

See you at 5.

Eric.

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PM News Letter

Hello.

An email arrives from a listener:

"The BBC should not aid, abet or disseminate the views of someone advocating the shooting of peaceful protesters. Jeremy Clarkson's pat argument that he should be afforded the freedoms of a satirist is phoney. He exaggerates his rightist view as a way to gain media attention and to normalise and trivialise extremism. Whatever it does, it does not provide fresh air for a reasoned debate. Mr Clarkson should be given the freedom to take his product to the private sphere where his appearance would be less of a disgrace to British people who do not have the freedom to avoid being associated with the BBC."

Our Westminster newsroom just sent this: "The Prime Minister has responded to Jeremy Clarkson's remarks about yesterday's public sector strike. Speaking on " This Morning" on ITV1, Mr Cameron said that it was "a silly thing to say". He then added: "I'm sure he didn't mean it"".

What do you think?

Eric

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