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Elvis Has Entered the Building
Just been listening, while knocking up a quick celery soup, to the Terry Gilliam Desert Island Discs podcast. For his first record he chose Presley’s Heartbreak Hotel – when he first heard it – sitting...
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Desert Island Discs
One of the good things about taking the more than occasional stroll around Hampstead Heath is that I get, via my IPod Nano, the chance to catch up on some BBC podcasts: Arts & Ideas; The Film...
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Sing As We Go …
I remember from the days of twice-nightly music hall [oh yes, I do] the normal thing for the comic on the bill was to end his act with a song. And most could put it across, hold a tune. Max Miller....
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Desert Island & Other Discs
Like countless others, two of my favourite radio programmes are Desert Island Discs and its somewhat upmarket neighbour, Private Passions. People select their favourite music and talk about the how and...
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Zadie Does It!
The announcement of the Man Booker prize winner reminded me that on the evening of the Women’s Fiction Prize [as keen-eyed readers of this blog will know] I was to be found in Windsor Library...
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Practice Makes … ?
Aside from the musical and creative experience, the discipline involved in learning to play an instrument is really second to none, and I have a breeze in trying to apply that to anything else because...
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