This is Steve Allen's A Little Bit Extra, leading Britain's conversation. You're listening to our podcast of Steve Allen.

Morning everybody, welcome along to your free podcast for today. And we enter the 1st of March. I can't believe we'll hit 1st of March either. I mean, it only seems like yesterday we were doing a show at the Leicester Square Theatre. It only seems like yesterday we were doing, you know, Christmas and then all of a sudden it finishes.

And look what's changed in the past world, just a few weeks.

It is absolutely unbelievable.

I was actually having a chat because people, I don't know why people are asking me, like I know these things, what do you think is going to happen?

And I go, I have no idea. I said, I don't think you can second guess this.

I mean, I quite liked the idea, not necessarily, but I quite like the idea that Roman Abramovich was having a meeting the other day.

And he might be able to do something because he's very friendly with Putin.

Perhaps if Putin gets enough of his friends and cronies, you know, tapping him on the shoulder and going,

big mistake, you're screwing up our lives.

I've noticed the effects are now creeping on, no more of the Mirkats, because he's Russian. So consequently, we've axed that. So the Mirkatats because he's Russian so consequently we've axed that so the

Mirkat adverts have gone the man who was putting together the Edinburgh

festival I think has gone because he's Russian the Russian ballet are no longer

touring over here and the football's collapsing you know I mean it could all go

back to normal provided we give Putin a way out so that he can save face and not feel as though he's lost anything. I mean, he's 69. I mean, he can't go very much longer. He apparently has been sitting in his bunker, they say, for too long now, and he's become ingratiated into it he doesn't know what's going on either

but if we give him an out so that he feels as though he sort of achieves something then it might

be okay and we can all go back to normality because that's what we want there's no end of organisations

that are raising uh they don't want money.

What they want are... Well, we have a local restaurant that's doing it,

which I told you about on the programme this morning.

And they want pants, socks, shirts, paracetamol.

The one thing they really want, but it's a bit more difficult to send it, water.

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