well, i spoke to someone else on another news service this morning, and it s a lady who also works on cricket. and she s asked me a similar question, and i told her i am dying for the 4th of august, when i can go back into the commentary box and just do cricket. go back to doing cricket. doing my dayjob. i don t want to back away from this because i don t want to see itjust die, but i don t see myself as a person to take this forward. i m hoping that the book and the arguments and the conversations that are taking place, that the people who have the power to put policy in place and the people who have the power to make changes will actually do it, so i can put my slippers on, get my pipe and relax. and a final thought, the young men in the england football team, who have over the last few days suffered from this torrent of abuse, racist abuse, they re of an age, in their early 20s when this is not easy to handle. what is your message to them given your sporting career, which, you know,
near the port, which was at the centre of the blast. the artefacts are said to hold huge historic, artistic and cultural significance. it s hoped their restoration will be a symbol of healing following the disaster. earlier, i spoke with jamie fraser, curator of the british museum, and asked him how its involvement came about. we were shocked as everyone was, when the news of the explosion occurred on the 4th of august last year. and so, the curator for the contemporary middle east, myself, and the curator for the ancient levant, we got in touch with colleagues in lebanon and asked what the situation was with the cultural institutions and what the british museum could do to help. it could be described as the most complicated jigsaw ever, but it s much more complicated, isn t it? the issue here is that one museum had one case that held 7a really fragile glass vessels. the force of the blast was that on to the ground, so 72 of those specials smashed
noise, doesn t like to sort of be in the limelight, and yet you have found yourself as a result of what. by accident! so, i m just wondering now whether you feel you will continue to be prominent with this message of yours, to use your voice, or do you partly wish to go back to the quiet life you had before? well, i spoke to someone else on another news service this morning, and it s a lady who also works on cricket. and she s asked me a similar question, and i told her i am dying for the 4th of august, when i can go back into the commentary box and just do cricket. go back to doing cricket. doing my dayjob. i don t want to back away from this because i don t want to see itjust die, but i don t see myself as a person to take this forward. i m hoping that the book and the arguments and the conversations that are taking place, that the people who have the power to put policy in place
well, i spoke to someone else on another news service this morning, and it s a lady who also works on cricket. and she s asked me a similar question, and i told her i am dying for the 4th of august, when i can go back into the commentary box and just do cricket. go back to doing cricket.doing my dayjob. i don t want to back away from this because i don t want to see itjust die, but i don t see myself as a person to take this forward. i m hoping that the book and the arguments and the conversations that are taking place, that the people who have the power to put policy in place and the people who have the power to make changes will actually do it, so i can put my slippers on, get my pipe and relax. and a final thought, the young men in the england football team, who have over the last few days suffered from this torrent of abuse, racist abuse, they re of an age, in their early 20s when this is not
the ones who set policy. if someone is operating in your space, you control this country, someone is operating in your space, you should be able to dictate to that company how they run their company and what they allow and what they do not allow. you describe yourself as fundamentally and instinctively a quiet and reticent man who doesn t like to make a loud noise, doesn t like to sort of be in the limelight, and yet you have found yourself as a result of what. by accident! so, i m just wondering now whether you feel you will continue to be prominent with this message of yours, to use your voice, or do you partly wish to go back to the quiet life you had before? well, i spoke to someone else on another news service this morning, and it s a lady who also works on cricket. and she s asked me a similar question, and i told her i am dying for the 4th of august,