Are mixed relationships still taboo?

Hi there. Text of the year arrived from Osman in Somalia during yesterday’s show. ‘Plz plz plz call me, I listen u more than my WIFE and she is jealous of U. Osman’ As I’ve said before that’s the kind of commitment we’re looking for.

Thanks for signing up to the Daily Email to Ivan in the Czech Republic, Onyi in Amsterdam, Marla in Oregon, Lydia in Oakland, Chad in Canada and Peter in Singapore.

THREE TO CHOOSE FROM. There are three items that may make the show. No. 1 is definitely in, No. 2 if we can get a radio station in South Carolina to hook up with us and No. 3 if John Simpson can do us.

Roundabouts are passé

If you were listening on Thursday you’ll have heard Billy in Nairobi snigger at the city authorities for still building roundabouts. Now we have no shortage of new roundabouts in the UK, so I picked him up… ‘are you saying roundabouts are passé Billy?’ ‘You bet they are,’ came the response. I’d never really thought about them before, but clearly some of you had.

In and out of Zimbabwe

Hello, it’s Leonardo here at TVC today, after an eventful journey on a very wet Tuesday. Two security alerts on my way across London, but thankfully only false alarms.

I was as surprised as everyone else as I watched the Ten O’Clock News last night and saw the BBC’s World Affairs Editor, John Simpson, reporting from Zimbabwe.

He’d been in the capital, Harare, for a few days, defying Robert Mugabe’s ban on BBC staff entering the country.