AS IF freshly minted for the first column of the new year, an amazing scheme is whispered in Mr Brocklebank’s exquisite shell-like.
Not content with Ringo Starr performing a-top St George’s Hall, apparently an idea has been mooted for BBC Radio Merseyside’s Roger Phillips to broadcast from the apex of the Wellington Monument, William Brown Street.
Will he appear alongside, or straddle the Iron Duke’s tricorn hat?
In fact, further information claims that a stunt double will appear as the Blessed Roger. What can this mean?
Does Mr Phillips’s award- winning status dictate that he is the only BBC wireless star to have a stunt-double?
With the BBC fending off accusations of fakery, would not a beaming and bearded double indulging in abseiling antics cause acute audience anxiety, when in reality our hero’s producer has him safely roped to his studio desk?