The muffin making definitely paid off. I succeeded in distracting myself from the inevitable anxiety associated with the prospect of filming a series of piano duets with relative strangers for a BBC P… more →
thoroughly good blogwrote 3 weeks ago: There is something intensely silly about cooking on the radio, not quite as daft as a ventriloquist … more →
wrote 3 weeks ago: At the Ulster Museum It’s been an uneventful week as far as my McArdle’s disease this week; to put i … more →
wrote 1 month ago: I always delight in listening to Broadcasting House on Radio 4 – on the Sundays when I’m … more →
wrote 2 months ago: DEMOLISHED: Broadcasting House, High Street. Operations are now centralized at NCN Homestretch Avenu … more →
wrote 4 months ago: We fancied something different for date night this week and decided to consult the Leeds Guide for s … more →
wrote 4 months ago: George Orwell’s novel Nineteen Eighty-Four might be the most influential novel of the twentiet … more →
wrote 6 months ago: My hand and green thread braceletHeard this idea on Broadcasting House yesterday, and a quick Google … more →
wrote 6 months ago: The muffin making definitely paid off. I succeeded in distracting myself from the inevitable anxiety … more →
wrote 7 months ago: Or…why have the world media embraced catastrophic AGW so enthusiastically… Just try to l … more →
wrote 8 months ago: The first trip of the year, to London. We arrived mid morning on Saturday (after a somewhat circuito … more →
wrote 9 months ago: “It’s all bollocks!” was my considered response to a colleague when I found myself … more →
wrote 10 months ago: The Times, Telegraph and Guardian have all got in on the act with reviews of U2’s upcoming alb … more →
wrote 10 months ago: As they have done before in L.A U2 played their Songs including recently released ‘Get On Your … more →
wrote 10 months ago: I hate U2 and I like Bono even less. I’m one of those sorts of people who will start foaming a … more →
wrote 10 months ago: I’m not sure how it happened, one minute I was drinking wine at my desk, the next minute I was … more →
wrote 1 year ago: In an earlier post, on 27 October, I wrote about an American novelist who had been interviewed on t … more →
wrote 1 year ago: Martin Worth, who wrote scripts for the second and third series of the original Survivors, was inter … more →
wrote 1 year ago: I was listening to Broadcasting House on Radio 4 on Sunday morning when they introduced a listener, … more →
wrote 1 year ago: UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has unveiled a memorial on the roof of BBC Broadcasting House, in c … more →