Vowel, consonant and another vowel

The chairman watches time stand still in the company of Richard Whiteley

"Now that just has to have been an act," said the chairman of the insignificantly-sized investment company SmallBlue Planet as the ABI Financial Media Awards finally limped to a close. "I mean, nobody can be that excruciatingly awful, can they? Surely he must have been putting it on … mustn't he?" We were sitting at our table in the sumptuous Walford Memorial Suite at the Royal Lancaster Travelodge and Berni Inn and were settling down to the real business of the evening - fighting off all the freeloaders who were trying to steal the wine stocks we had built up. "You may have to be more spe...