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OV Chris Tarrant on QUIZ, OV Bakers, an OV NHS Hero & More! OV Chris Tarrant on QUIZ, OV bakers, an OV NHS Hero & More! King's Heroes: Thank you to our OV NHS Workers It has been so lovely each Thursday at 8pm to join in with neighbours across the country to cheer and clap for our amazing NHS workers. We would like especially like to thank NHS members of our OV community who are working incredibly hard in very difficult circumstances. This week we especially thank OV and paramedic Ben Rean (Os 02-09). OV Illustrations for COVID-19 charities Well done to OV Olivia Parson (Cr 07-11) who is using her spare time in lockdown to rediscover her creativity and raise money for charity. Olivia was a keen art student at King's, being taught Art A-level by Chris Haywood (Hon OV), and has been learning to do illustrations thanks to a video on Skillshare. She has created quite a following on Instagram already, undertaking commissions in exchange for donations to charities related to the COVID- 19 pandemic. Charities supported to date range from homeless shelters and food banks to new ventilator innovations. Olivia says: "The response has been amazing. Two weeks in and I've sold eight illustrations, and raised £750 for charity, with the same amount again pledged for future commissions." Coronavirus Diary with OV Jeremy Thompson: Entry 4 Following on from last week, here is the beginning of the next entry in OV Jeremy Thompson (S 61-65)'s Virus Diaries for Sky news… Monday 6th April I catch myself whistling Busy Doing Nothing - a sharp reminder to myself to get a grip. We're into week four of our lockdown and we've settled into an odd sort of rhythm. My new five-a-day consists of exercising, cooking, reading, socialising online, and writing - with a side portion of TV viewing, if it's tasty and healthful. Unlike Geldof's Boomtown Rats, we do like Mondays. They've become our designated walking and shopping days. The parks are gloriously empty near us today in contrast with local food shops, which are fully stocked. One customer in, one out makes shopping a less risky pursuit. Though Lynn still insists that I - the vulnerable one - stay outside while she buys. Friends in Spain send a video of a large wild boar with her six piglets strolling nonchalantly down a local street. My journalist pal John in Barcelona wryly describes it as "a vision of the apocalypse". You can read the rest of this week here. OVs stories from around the world- France & Laos Last week we were pleased to share OV stories from around the UK, USA, Austria and Japan about how OVs have been affected by Coronavirus. This week we have news from Alex in France and Michael in Laos. We really enjoy reading these OV news updates so if you live abroad and would like to share your story please do let us know at [email protected] France: Alex Humpage-Versavaud (S 94-03) This week Emmanuel Macron announced that lock down measures would be in place until May 11th. Then we should start to see gradual easing. This will mean the country will have been confined for two months. It feels as though the response here has been fairly clear and consistent. Although the measures seem draconian, our close proximity to Northern Italy is a reminder of the effects this virus can have. Closer to home several relatives on my wife's side of the family have been struck down by COVID-19 for a thoroughly unpleasant time. Professionally I'm quite lucky - my sector, video games, is enjoying something of a boom as everyone is playing more because there are fewer alternatives and everyone's at home. I have had several new business pitches and marketing strategies to develop since working from home was enforced. Projects vary from Destiny 2 to Candy Crush Saga! However for many others, my wife included, the French equivalent of the furlough (chômage technique) is in effect. I wonder about the economic impact on small and medium businesses particularly later this year. Personally there are some challenges although my wife and I are lucky enough to have spent a long time travelling together with often only each other for company - so it's perhaps not as much of an adjustment as for some couples. Living centrally in a big city means there is plenty of human contact despite the distancing measures in place. We have neighbours' children playing in the courtyard next to our garden and on Saturday there was a music festival played from a nearby balcony, which the neighbourhood was involved in whether it wanted to be or not! To leave the house we have to have a signed letter (which we write and sign ourselves) and in theory can only go up to 1km from our residence to buy food or have a modicum of walking exercise. Despite this, queues at the supermarket (due to social distancing measures) often stretch all the way down the street. Despite the monotony there's something exciting about knowing billions of people around the world are living a shared reality in ways perhaps not similarly experienced ever before. I hope all OVs, staff and current pupils and families are doing well in these strange times. Laos: Michael Boddington MBE (S 55-58) Laos continued for what seemed like a long time as a COVID-19-free country - I watched as the number of afflicted countries mounted through the 10s, and then through the 100s, until finally, on March 24th, it was announced that we had two cases. We were the 193rd country to join the ranks of that dubious club. Now (April 16th) we have 19 cases, of whom one has recovered. There was a certain symmetry about having 19 cases! Two of them have been students returning from UK! Blavatnik School of Government at Oxford University has prepared an index of countries according to how stringent or otherwise their response to the virus has been. The most stringent get a 100 score, and Laos is one of three such nations (along with Vietnam and New Zealand). A rare first for Laos PDR to come top of the class. Long before we had even one single case, the government started taking measures to ensure that Laos was not afflicted: borders were closed, flights to and from affected countries were stopped, pre-schools, kindergartens and primary schools were closed - a preliminary to closing all educational establishments - anyone coming from overseas was put into quarantine for 14 days - not an encouraging start to a fortnight's holiday! Lockdown started on April 1st and has just been extended from April 19th to May 3rd. These were draconian measures. But GoL made a promise in January 2020, that it would prevent COVID-19 from making landfall in Laos and it aimed to stand by that pledge. For me, there are no hardships. I feel very sad for those in early and mid-careers, with families, mortgages and other responsibilities. Thirty or forty years ago something like this would have wiped me out - and I didn't need any help in that! In my retirement, I run a homestay in the middle of a jungle. Well, there have been no guests since March 24th. My continuing work with disabled people has been sorely interrupted and I just hope that those folk with whom I am directly involved can hang on out there. Laos has a model for the world in these stricken times, working from grass-roots outwards: individual tolerance, familial ties, cohesive community and compassion for all. These are the way forward in a post- COVID-19 world. OV Chris Tarrant played by Michael Sheen in QUIZ We have been absolutely transfixed watching QUIZ, ITV's latest three-part series on the coughing scandal on "Who Wants to Be A Millionaire" in 2001. OV Chris Tarrant (Ch 60-64) is best known as host of the very successful original programme and is portrayed by the incredible Michael Sheen in this series. We contacted Chris to hear his take on QUIZ... "The programme QUIZ, that airs over 3 nights on ITV just after Easter, is the story of the famous cheating Major and his coughing accomplice. 19 years ago, Major Charles Ingram, his wife Diana and their sidekick Tecwen Whittock were all found guilty of conspiracy to fraud £1 million on the game show "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire." QUIZ is very well made, superbly acted, and with very high production values. However, my one tiny little problem with the programme is that they seem to have forgotten that the Major was found guilty of fraud, and all 3 of them were lucky not to go to prison. Michael Sheen, a superb actor who has played David Frost, Brian Clough and Tony Blair amongst others, plays me as the host of Who Wants to Be A Millionaire. It was quite surreal watching him play me, because clearly, he has spent hours watching DVD's of me hosting the show and has really nailed lots of my physical mannerisms. He has a blonde wig, but the rest of it is just down to his voice and his body movement. It was quite surreal watching him, but I'm rather flattered. We met, quite bizarrely, at The Pride of Britain this year in London, he'd finished recording the programmes, and was on to something else, but he clearly had spent months watching DVD's of yours truly. I said to my wife "There's Michael Sheen over there." I'd never met him before, but I felt an irresistible urge to tap him on the shoulder, so I did! Bearing in mind he'd only seen me on little DVD sized screens for about the last 3 or 4 months, and suddenly this great gangling 6'2" thing is tapping him on the shoulder, it was no wonder that he jumped out of his skin with surprise.
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