er, "Oh, I didn't know you rode a bike," and I said, "Yeah," and he said, "Do you know what we call, er, bike riders in the Roosevelt... the trauma department of the Roosevelt hospital?" and I said, "No," and he said, "Donors."" "Oh!" "That was one thing, then, literally, two days later, a friend of mine was talking about her aunt who was at Moorfields eye hospital, and she was going to have a cataract operation, or a corneal graft or one of those sort of things." "And, er, the, er, chap came in, the consultant, he said, "Now, Mrs, er, Mrs Alton," he said, erm, "I'm sure you've heard about how I'm going to cut out that nasty old lens, that cloudy old lens, and we'rea succession of leaders of the Russian state, or Soviets, erm, who have alternated between being hairy and bald." "From, er, Alexander in 1881 to Nicholas, er, Lenin was bald, Stalin had a full head of hair..." "Krushchov." "Krushchov was bald." "Krushchov was bald, er, Brejnev was hairy." "Yep." "Er, Andropov was bald and Chernenko was hairy and Gorbachev was bald and Yeltsin was hairy and now we have a bald one, and the Russians take this very seriously and, er, it is considered a contributory factor to his winning the elections, is that he's bald, because it's time for a bald leader." "So next time it's Brian May out of Queen..." "Yes, that's right!" "Viewscreens:" "Altered picture of Alan in a general's uniform, saluting the camera." "Is