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Hello. Things I have liked recently:

* Melvyn Bragg's "In Our Time" (e.g. the recent Vincent Van Gogh episode - or this.)

* Greta Gerwig on Desert Island Discs

* Home Alone

* Home Alone 2 

* Backlisted podcast, eg this episode about Basil Bunting.

* This:

* Zagazoo

On the subject of the brilliant Quentin Blake, thanks for this, Harry Pye...

I am giving this a go:

 ...anything to avoid actually listening to them (just kidd..

Try reading this out loud to someone without getting emotional (from "Being Alive" edited by Neil Astley):

Jane Kenyon is no longer with us.

I was glad to compose the music for "Loch Ness: They Created A Monster" (BBC Scotland)" and for "Storyville - Keeping It Up: The Story Of Viagra" (BBC TWO).

Here comes some art: