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Latitude Festival, 17-20 July, plus Robin Incursions
With springlike optimism in the air, my name is now down for the Latitude Festival in July, probably reading from Cleaning Up. I really hope I’ll be able to do it, especially as some friends are getting married in Italy not long after that, and it would be just wrong not to go. July sounds […]
Me on Radio 4 Today Programme
April 17, 2008
In which I address the nation at peak time on Wednesday morning! Thanks again to Professor Sutherland. Audio here (4 meg) TG-Radio4-Today-160408 OK, OK, so my ‘stats’ were a bit over the top for a serious news programme, but I think a significant number of the voting – and even more of the opinion-forming – […]
Liquid Gold in the FT
April 14, 2008
Chatting to a radio researcher earlier today, I heard about this piece by John Sutherland in the Financial Times, about drinking memoirs. There is, ahem, a lovely error in there, obviously picked up from the text of Cleaning Up, and which I actually discovered a couple of weeks ago. It will be corrected for the […]
BBC Bristol interview – audio
April 13, 2008
Here’s the audio of my interview with Dave Barrett on BBC Radio Bristol last week. (11 meg download) BBC Bristol 9th April 2008 Again I hit my limit, chatting for too long in an Ethiopian restaurant on Saturday evening. Suddenly, sadly, I just had to run for it. Actually, since, there was music playing as […]
Invisible Illness
April 3, 2008
Yesterday I went to see the crew at Serpent’s Tail/Profile, as I haven’t seen them since my launch in the middle of January. As an experiment, I left my stick at home. Oxford Street and the tube in rush hour were a bit too much, but otherwise I really should leave it behind more, at […]
Interview with BBC Radio Bristol
April 2, 2008
Today I did an interview with BBC Radio Bristol, which will be aired next Wednesday, I think, between 9am and 12pm.
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