Tea News Bits
A Salute to John Inman
On March 8, 2007, everyone's beloved John Inman passed away at the age of 71. We've received many emails asking if MPT planned to do a memorial in his honor. We are pleased to let you know that we have attained the rights to air Mr. Inman's biography from the BBC. The biography, in conjunction with three of his best Are You Being Served? episodes will air on Saturday evening, May 5 from 9:00 p.m. - 11:00 p.m. We hope all of our Tea Goers will tune in.
April Programming You Won't Want to Miss
No, it isn't British but you won't want to miss Chesapeake Bay Week on MPT. Beginning on Monday, April 23 and ending on Sunday, April 29 look for programming throughout the day that informs you about our beloved Bay or related stories. From sturgeons to painters to Jamestown to muskrats, we offer a slice of life from many different angles and how this bold body of water affects all of our lives. This is the third anniversary of Chesapeake Bay Week and each year, because of the interest from our viewers, we do our best to expand our offerings.
Don't miss the grand finale - the Chesapeake Bay Volunteer-A-Thon on Sunday evening, April 29 from 7:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. Volunteers from various organizations that support Bay efforts will be in our studios asking for your time to help them. If we all do a little, the help will add up to a lot! It's a great way to meet new people and be part of some feel-good community service. We are hoping the phones ring off the hook!
Antiques Roadshow in Baltimore
Antiques Roadshow is coming to Baltimore on June 16. The show will be held at the Baltimore Convention Center. If you have a treasured piece that you want appraised, you need to get a ticket ahead of time. The tickets are distributed by WGBH, the public television station in Boston.
To get your ticket, you can go to www.pbs.org/antiques to sign up. For those of you without computers, you can send a standard size postcard, postmarked by April 21, to:
Baltimore Roadshow
Box 249
Canton, MA 02021
Be sure to include your name and address; and preference for morning, mid-day or afternoon entry (not guaranteed). Only 2 tickets are allowed per household.
Questions? Please call 1-888-762-3749.
Is Charity Shop Find a Real Picasso?
A chance find in a charity shop could turn out to be more than a pretty piece for a bargain hunter, who believes he may have found a Picasso.
Graham Duncan bought an oil painting in the new Relief for Romania charity shop on York Road, Twickenham, and is appealing for the person who donated it to come forward.
Mr. Duncan says, "I will split any profits between myself, the donor and the charity three ways - a third share for each of us."
Nearly three weeks ago, Mr. Duncan, a draftsman for Richmond Upon Thames Council, took a shine to the painting on a visit to the shop and paid £5 ($9.71) for it: "I like finding art and books in charity shops. I'm no art specialist but I quite liked the colours on this one."
Noticing the painting was signed, "Picasso," Mr. Duncan's girlfriend researched it on the Internet and found that it featured on archivists' websites. "I wrote to an art gallery who put me in touch with Claude Picasso, the son of Pablo, who will look at specialist photographs that I am going to have taken. Picasso was a prolific painter, so if it is genuine it could be worth £1,000, £10,000 or even £100,000 ($1,942.00-$194,211.00)," he said.
Mr. Duncan needs to track down the original owner to help with the verification process.
www.thisislocallondon.co.uk
Bomb Used as Doorstop for 60 Years
An unexploded World War II shell which was used as a doorstop for 60 years has been removed by bomb disposal experts from a New Malden house.
The bomb's owner, Betty Johnson, inherited it 50 years ago from the previous owner of her house in Knightwood Crescent, who had been using it to prop open the door or her garden shed for about a decade.
I never really thought much of it. I thought if it had lasted ten years, it was probably dead," she said.
"A friend of mine came round recently and got quite funny about it, and it's been on my mind ever since. I thought I'd better get someone to take a look. "Mrs. Johnson called police and had two visits from officers before bomb disposal experts from central London came to collect the bomb last weekend.
"They seemed quite interested in what kind of shell it was, and asked if they could take it away. I asked him not to bring it near the house, and he said quite right not to, madam. They took it away with flashing lights - the neighbours came out to see what was going on and why I had all these visitors."
Mrs. Johnson will now wait to hear what kind of bomb it is, and whether it was at any risk of exploding.
www.thisislocallondon.co.uk
Graffiti Thieves Remove Wall with Angle Grinder
Thieves removed a graffiti masterpiece from a wall with an angle grinder - and tried to sell it for £20,000 ($38,839.00). The stolen piece is the work of Bristol's famous graffiti bandit, Banksy.
Found just below a "no balls games" sign in Gloucester Gardens, Central London, the graffiti showed a mischievous rat playing with a ball.
The culprits put their loot up for sale on Ebay with a £20,000 asking price. Ebay has since removed the item from the site.
www.thisislocallondon.co.uk
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