Michael Portillo on the West Somerset Railway

[Robin Summerhill]

Post deleted and re-entered with a quote because it appeared on the next page so didn't flow properly!

[Robin Summerhill]

.... The thinking might be "Portillo is going from a puncutre-mending festival in Hereford to a bell-polishing club in Worcester ... )

Oh, for a spoof episode!!!!....

(scene 22 : Foregate street, Worcester - enter stage left Mr. Portillo sporting lime-green jacket and turquoise trousers fresh from best-apponted hotel in Hereford and a Dunlop puncture patch stuck jauntily across forehead, enter stage right octegenarian bell-polisher Mr. Bong brandishing an empty polish can held in verdigris-stained wizened hand)
Mr Portillo : So what effect did the coming of the railway have on the bell-polishing industry in Worcester?
Mr. Bong : Oh, it was incredibly important - it meant that supplies of Brasso took one-tenth the time it used to take .....blah blah blah zzzzzzz
(exit stage left Mr. Portillo, to best-appointed hotel in Worcester, exit stage right Mr. Bong to ironmonger's store) (cut to Babbacombe cliff railway)

I like your sense of humour!

[simon]

.... The thinking might be "Portillo is going from a puncutre-mending festival in Hereford to a bell-polishing club in Worcester ... )

Oh, for a spoof episode!!!!....

(scene 22 : Foregate street, Worcester - enter stage left Mr. Portillo sporting lime-green jacket and turquoise trousers fresh from best-apponted hotel in Hereford and a Dunlop puncture patch stuck jauntily across forehead, enter stage right octegenarian bell-polisher Mr. Bong brandishing an empty polish can held in verdigris-stained wizened hand)
Mr Portillo : So what effect did the coming of the railway have on the bell-polishing industry in Worcester?
Mr. Bong : Oh, it was incredibly important - it meant that supplies of Brasso took one-tenth the time it used to take .....blah blah blah zzzzzzz
(exit stage left Mr. Portillo, to best-appointed hotel in Worcester, exit stage right Mr. Bong to ironmonger's store) (cut to Babbacombe cliff railway)

But you need to add in Mr P making a ham fisted attempt to polish a bell then thanking Mr Bong for the chance to try.....

[buxton4472]

But you need to add in Mr P making a ham fisted attempt to polish a bell then thanking Mr Bong for the chance to try.....

Ah - I think he must have been 'trying his hand' during the zzzzzzzzzz phase of the scene! (that was where I would have fallen asleep).