This is LBC from Global, leading Britain's conversation with James O'Brien.

A very good morning indeed to you.

It is four minutes after ten, and it's increasingly difficult to know what to say at the top of the show because, well, round and round we go with the same issues facing us, the same problems, the same questions in many ways remaining unanswered and the same mysteries remaining unsolved. We will at least today, touch would, be able to, and perhaps you'll give the kids a heads up for this. I'm hoping

that today's show, even the first hour, which will be very much in the deep end of the day's

news, won't be quite as bleak as perhaps some of the programming we've been compelled to make

this week. So go and get the kids out of bed and certainly get them out of bed in time for

mystery hour, something that younger listeners generally enjoy at least as much as older listeners.

I am going to keep my feature, my Friday feature alive, even though I won't be working

tomorrow. I will be inviting you to ring in after 11 o'clock to say thank you to people

who perhaps aren't getting the boost to their emotions of that weekly round of applause,

the clap for our carers on our doorstep, something really beautiful.

But as we'll probably mention in the first hour of the program today, it doesn't necessarily

guarantee that the people

clapping are properly doing everything they could be doing to lessen the burdens being placed

upon our NHS, of which more in a moment. And I mean, the other element of conversation,

of course, will be that, will be the thank you. It's inspired in part,

I mean, mostly inspired by the clap for our carers and the recognition that plenty of people

who aren't technically carers aren't doing a hell of a lot of caring, whether they're stacking

shelves in supermarkets or driving delivery trucks, or a very personal, private act of charity, decency, kindness that's

unfolded in your life that you want to draw attention to as well. So we'll have a look at that.

Do you still do double takes? Or are you finding everything so bizarre and so unfamiliar that

almost everything has the power to surprise you.

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