11:45
The British Summer
Kirk Douglas was filming To Catch a Spy on the West Coast of Scotland in 1970. One day he got so fed up with the rain keeping him indoors that that he decided to brave the elements. He met a small boy at the bus stop. 'Tell me son, does it rain here all the time?' The boy thought for a moment. "I wouldn't know.......I'm only 11 years old.'
11:10
Gitta Sereny
Gitta Sereny Gitta Sereny died recently. It would probably be true to say that no one has studied evil deeds and those that perpetuated them...
19:49
Television
A year or more ago I was listening to AA Gill who is, amongst other things, a television critic. He said how fed up he was with otherwise i...
19:40
Bird migration
I am reading a wonderful book: Say goodbye to the Cuckoo by Michael McCarthy. It is an elegy to the migrating bird species that, for many re...
05:21
Crash
I fly a microlight – though this is not the hang-glider with a chain-saw engine that most people associate with that concept - but a sleek s...
14:07
Debate
The Chalke Valley History Festival, Wiltshire. Go to it next year; it's wonderful. We went to a discussion between Michael Gove and Tris...
13:46
The state we're in
Matthew Parris is always worth reading. Never more so than this: “We have been living beyond our means. We have been paying ourselves more t...
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