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Mrs. Monk's Would-be Diary, should have been written by Mrs. Monk, since she is the "Writer" in the family.
However, since she is a writer only in the conceptual sense, I have undertaken to fill these pages on her behalf.
If not by her, these pages will certainly be about her, and other important matters of the day

Leslie Monk

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A Plague of Plagiarisms and the hard-up BBC 12 May 2008

Mrs Monk is exasperated by what she sees as the outrageous theft by some daily national newspapers of her photo essay concepts.

After we published her Bus Stop sets, the Guardian offered us a similar story noting the statuesque posing of waiting travellers at bus stops.

Following Mrs Monks War Games ruse for this years April Fools Day, a similar story appeared in the Independent. Compare and Contrast the images.

Before that, the best selling author Tom Franklin stole Mrs Monks very own name and used it for a character and indeed the title of his book, Smonk.

Before that, I improvised a piece of music which I called Philippoussis. The mighty Philippoussis was playing tennis at Wimbledon on TV as I worked my piano ivories.

I sent this piece of music to the BBC and invited them to use it the following year during the Wimbledon tennis coverage. Imagine my surprise when immediately before a Philippoussis match, I heard my music come back at me. OK, it was just a small piece over the title sequence as Sue Barker hyped-up the match that Philippoussis was about to play, but the point is that the BBC failed to tell me they were going to use it, or even acknowledged that they did so, and of course, failed to pay me for using my work.

Since I am on the subject of the BBC, let me place one last grump on this page. Mrs Monk’s great three part opus for Radio 4, Death In Essex, which we like to think helped bring down John Major, and was broadcast in 1997 just before Tony Blair got his first landslide against the Tories. This diary piece predates Mrs Monks Would Be Diary, and on this occasion Mrs Monk received a modest payment. However, imagine our surprise when we subsequently heard it go out as a repeat in the middle of night on the BBC World Service. We were not told that this would happen, and ten years later we are still waiting for those overdue repeat fees.

The BBC are always pleading poverty, but do you think Jonathan Ross has this trouble.

And just to hammer home the point, you might like to check out this story of Mrs Monk singing for her super for the BBC and the nation on BBC Radio 4, and of course, as usual, getting no super.

See Naked Monks, so named to attract the wrong type.

I am so glad to get all that off our chests.

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The BBC are always pleading poverty, but do you think Jonathan Ross has this trouble.