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After dropping the kids off at school, Catie and me were driving to the gym and Jason Donovan was being interviewed on Radio 2. There have been reports that he was giving up touring, but don't worry - the reports are erroneous. Phew.
They played "Too Many Broken Hearts in the World" which I presume is still in his live set, or fans will leave very disappointed (though I like the idea of Donovan only playing his experimental new stuff at gigs, to the disappointment of his now middle-aged audience trying to recapture their youth - nothing wrong with that).
That song makes me think of "Bob Says Who?" the quiz show pilot for Radio 1 that Stew and me wrote for in maybe 1991. It starred Bob Mortimer in possibly his first solo project. I mentioned it to Bob on one of the podcasts and he doesn't remember it at all. My own memories are fairly limited, though I do recall that Sonia was on one of the teams.
The only question I remember that we wrote was "According to Jason Donovan there are too many broken hearts in the world... but how many too many are there?"
It was a nice gag and right up Bob's alley. I am not saying we created Shooting Stars, but we obviously did.
What I like about the song is that it implies that a certain amount of broken hearts wouldn't be problematic - but the numbers we have exceed the quota. I might now have the supplementary query, "In your opinion, what is an acceptable amount of broken hearts to have in the world per annum?" It would be interesting to know what Sonia thought of that.
For whatever reason there was no series. I expect because Bob became too successful to be arsed to do it. He was, as you'd expect from the man, very nice to us when we briefly met him.
Later we had lunch at Wagamamas in Stevenage (£12 for a main and drink on a selected menu). On visiting the gents afterwards, I was surprised to see. well-used semi-circular toilet mat up against the wall, under the hand dryer. What an odd place to put it. You’d have to get back against wall, crouch to avoid hand dryer and aim at very small patch of mat. Plus you’re just looking at backs of men urinating. What kind of pervert would be turned on by that? A lot of wear and tear on mat so getting used! The people of Stevenage are a weird bunch.
The big news of the overthrow of a terrible dictator and the vacuum left for his potential successor was covered on
today's Newsround. 
