BACK amongst friends.

This time on BACK amongst friends, Ian Jones interveiws Paul Lynch, Manging Director London at Stagecoach Bus and the 2024 president of the Confederation of Passenger Transport. Starting as a graduate trainee with London Buses in 1984, Paul was promoted through a series of garage management roles in East London. By the time Stagecoach bought East London in 1994 he was District Operations Manager. Moving as General Manager to Stagecoach South in 1996, and to Stagecoach's Swedish company as Op...

From sibling quarrels to inheritance infighting the sky television series “ Succession “ is the penthouse of dramas far above ordinary family mayhem. The award-winning show does not imagine what could go wrong in family empires it plasters together what has gone wrong in case after case of real life melodrama and applies a glorious gloss of word play and satire. The farce makes for great telly especially as Logan Roy - the patriarch of the family - favours his only daughter. Family busi...

Back in 1984 we were introduced to Beverly Hills Cop an American buddy cop action comedy film starring Eddie Murphy as Axel Foley, a street-smart Detroit cop who visits Beverly Hills to solve the murder of his best friend. The film shot Murphy to international stardom. It was an immediate blockbuster, receiving critical acclaim and was the highest-grossing film released in 1984 . The theme tune was “the heat is on “by Glen Fry and was an up-tempo recording featuring a steady...

Hello, darkness, my old friend.I've come to talk with you again “ are the opening lyrics to the sound of silence - the theme tune to the graduate written and sung by Paul Simon. This week we go BACK and forth with an old friend to many transport operators and he explains how he experienced complete darkness whilst driving a hgv through the deserts of Namibia. If you can connect Switzerland with the plains of Africa then you will have guessed that it is Matt Eisenegger ...

The word Apricity appears to have entered our language BACK in 1623, when Henry Cockeram recorded (or possibly invented) it for his dictionary. It means the warmth of a yellow sun in winter. Despite the fact that it is a delightful word for a delightful thing it never quite caught on, and will not be found in any modern dictionary aside from the Oxford English Dictionary. That’s simply the luck of the English language at work and shows that whilst chance is a fine thing - opportunity is...