Dreadful inexcusable blunder.
I’m sitting at my computer holding my head in my hands, groaning, rending my garments and so on. This coming Sunday sees the broadcast of the second episode of the series I’m currently doing...
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In case of fire…
I got a call today from a journalist on The Sunday Express, who wanted to talk about the series I’ve just done for Radio Four, which is called ‘The Completists’, and which starts on...
Decades of fun at Radio Free Radnorshire
So, to celebrate the new Decade, we here at Radio Free Radnorshire have been speculating thusly; which was the best year for popular music in each of the decades of poppy rockin’? We have...
Music really was my first love.
And sometimes it’s the only thing that pulls you through. 25 years ago, I lived in a freezing cold artists studio up in the South Downs behind Newhaven. It was winter, and I had...
Completing the Set
Just got a commision from Radio Four to make a series about people who’ve collected the whole set. That is to say, they’ve done every Airfix model, they’ve visited every League Football ground etc...
Oh, sod it…
…after all, Sunday Night is supposed to be Music Night here on Radio Free Radnorshire. I was going to blog a rant about the inequity of a voting system that might see the New...
Newhaven Marine
The fabulous Jolyon Jenkins, the producer at Radio Four who is doing the show about ghost trains, sent me this excerpt from Hansard today… 3 Feb 2009 : Column 1135W Newhaven Marine Railway Station...
Off the Page
As I’m a guest on the Radio Four show ‘Off the Page’ today, it suddenly occured to me that I might, just might, get some increased traffic here, and that first time visitors might...
Top Deck, again.
I’ve just been to Norwich to visit Minnie at UEA. Sitting together on the top deck of the No.25 bus, heading into the city, Minnie listed the ways in which students are like primary...
Off The Page, Vietnamese food, 2666 and all that…
I’ve just been to that London for a recording of the Radio Four series ‘Off The Page’, which is due for broadcast sometime in November. My fellow guests were the excellent Melissa Cole, and...
Watching the ships go by
One of the things that you can do on a WordPress blog is see which of the links that you post get clicks. To my horror, no one, exactly no one, has clicked on...
If it's Sunday Night, it's still music night here on Radio Free Radnorshire
Well, after my protracted period of silence, here I am with blog three in five days. I’m on fire baby. And since it is, after all, Sunday night, I return to my slight habit...
Coming Round The Mountain
Monique came to stay on Sunday, after she had been the night before to a fellow tantrica’s Hen night in an 18th Century Vicarage outside Hereford. She wanted me to take her to a...
Gentlemen, The Queen!
I’ve just got back from The Mayor of Presteigne’s Annual Fund Raising Sunday Lunch, where I had been asked to give a short after-dinner speech. I like doing this kind of thing, and I’m...
Sunday Night is Music Night here on Radio Free Radnorshire
For a few months now, I’ve been chatting with my pal Mark Williams about setting up an internet streaming radio station, based here in my sophisticated apartment in downtown Presteigne. Mark is a top...
