Katie Derham had Henry Wood's Bust in her Cab.

[jayne lee wilson]

Back of a cab? Some of it's censored...

Many a cat in a basket, once or twice wrapped in a blanket or towel... yowling and doing...other things.
HiFi components in boxes, one hand resting lovingly on top...

First job after school was as a social worker's assistant, so I had to be in the back with many a babe or toddler. Could get a bit messy sometimes.

[antongould]

I'd have to give anton first prize, saly!

No, no S_A you win hands down but the big guns may not have arrived yet and of course salymap could still have an ace up her sleeve.

[Nick Armstrong]

Yes, I was afraid of that sort of comment

Well the Radio Times headline is ' I HAD THAT HENRY WOOD IN THE BACK OF MY CAB.'

NO comment from me

Of course there's Anna's tale of sharing a cab with Vernon Handley!

No interesting cab rides for me. It just reminds me of a very rude sketch featuring Pete & Dud's obscene alter egos, Derek & Clive, playing a couple of London cabbies chatting.....


DEREK: Yeah, well I was hailed.....
CLIVE: Who was that? "Hailed" you?
DEREK: Richard Wagner.
CLIVE: Richard Wagner?
DEREK: Yeah.
CLIVE: But he's been dead two hundred years.
DEREK: That's what I thought but, no, he was large as ******* life in the King's Road. Richie came into my cab humming, you know, snatches of, er, Tristan And Isolde. I thought, ******* ****! I thought he was dead. Anyway, he sat in the cab, whistling away, all, you know ..... (whistles tunelessly).... and I said, "Hello! I recognise that leitmotif!"

[Mary Chambers]

Perhaps I should extend it to 'travelled in a lift with' Mary. Didn't you meet a composer [Britten ?] in a lift ?

It was Tippett. If it had been Britten I'd probably have fainted with joy - or fear! I'd have been tongue-tied, I think.

[salymap]

It was Tippett. If it had been Britten I'd probably have fainted with joy - or fear! I'd have been tongue-tied, I think.

If I'd met Tippett I would like to have asked him about his early days in Stamford but doubt I would have had the courage.

[Hitch]

I shall remember this headline:

"British Public Wrong About Nearly Everything, Survey Shows"

[Nick Armstrong]

I shall remember this headline:

"British Public Wrong About Nearly Everything, Survey Shows"

It's a

[Petrushka]

I used to have a lift to work in the 1970's from a friend who performed in a band. I was the one sitting in the back sharing with a drum kit!

[Parry1912]

My brother had Jimmy Page in the back of his cab.