Hi David. Hello Ned. Help. What is it this time? Well you know during the summer I couldn't figure out how to start the retarded Ned.

Yeah I remember all your ideas were crap. Well I'm backstage right now and I've got about 20 seconds to think of something hilarious to get the evening off to a bang and he thought.

Okay leave it with me. Ten seconds David.

Wait. I've got it. Five. Four. No trousers. Come on to stage without any trousers. They'll break into wild spontaneous applause for sure they will.

Three, two, one.

Well that ended unexpectedly, Ned and Pete. Yeah, I can massively. It was bizarre, wasn't it Pete?

Well I suppose I suppose expectantly but quite somber. Yeah I mean it was interesting.

It was interesting from our perspective because we were on air David with that fifth and what we did at the time final stage.

And I think the BBC broke that original statement you know that the Queen was under medical supervision etc and around midday or lunchtime.

And we were on air and obviously I don't know whether you were even aware Pete in the convoy that that news story had dropped.

Yeah, yeah I'd heard it as well so it was just a strange, very strange day wasn't it and how quickly it was.

So my wife is a fervent royalist and was genuinely moved by it as was my mum as the majority.

I say the majority and I was as well and as was Peter.

But my wife has been reading everything since and said that the medical supervision was actually a code for people to know that she died because she actually died at 330.

And so the medical supervision was like okay it's happened and now operation at London Bridge begins.

And what I find amazing about it all was the respect that in this world that we now have where nothing's private and everything's leaked nothing was leaked.

It was kind of all that and Crosswinds Dan who was on the ground doing his VIP work at the Tour of Britain had befriended many of the police there.

And some of the police on the race much like the Tour de France, the Jean-Darméry who do all the out guard are the presidential guard.

Quite a few of the police outriders at the Tour of Britain were part of the royal guard for the Queen.

And that they knew this and they were going to be out called and actually if you go down to the beyond the kind of the moral responsibility of the race to stop.

Because the race is about celebration and it's the Tour of Britain it's a national tour and we were entering into a period of mourning.

You know you have to kind of it's really difficult for regions who have invested so much in that then have to switch on to this operation London Bridge and then have this celebratory race come through.

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