If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Two greats of radio and TV died yesterday, but while one received tributes on Radio 4, and will be highlighted in a special show tonight at 18h30, the other’s passing seems to have gone by relatively unnoticed.
Ned Sherrin, who [...]

Radio 4 comedy dramas I can take or leave (usually leave, by preference), but I do enjoy the comedy quizzes. Particularly I’m Sorry I Haven’t a Clue, and occasionally Just a Minute, although after his behaviour at our awards a few years back I’m gone off Nicholas Parsons.
The News Quiz, though, is a particular gem, [...]

A nice call this week from Radio 4. Actually, it was a follow-up to a voicemail and an email, neither of which I’d had time to reply to, so I feel quite grateful and honoured that they should try for a third time.
Anyhow, after my last slot on Word of Mouth, they’ve asked me to [...]

The news that Apple’s popped out a new bootloader so you can run Windows on a Mac has gone bonkers. It’s in the papers, on the news and, as of this afternoon, on the BBC World Service, who belled me this morning for an interview.
They apparently have a new policy of not doing phone interviews, [...]

I have spent the weekend not doing the things I should have been doing. Most specifically, I’ve not worked any more on researching the book. Or writing the damned thing.
I’ve not been idle. I’ve now made two batches of toffee: one butter and one treacle. I’ve visited Andrew and looked at the 22 staples in [...]

A very interesting day. A couple of hours with Stephen Fry tonight. Half an hour with Phill Jupitus this morning. In between, a very nice extended lunch at the pie shop with the rest of the team to mark Julian’s 14 years at the mag.
So the day started hideously early. Half five, to be precise. [...]

Meanwhile in Downing Street, Tony Blair adds Andrew Gilligan to his Christmas card list.
Or does he?
The government has got pretty much everything it wants in the wake of the Hutton Enquiry: an apology from the BBC, being cleared of ’sexing up’ the report on Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction, validation of its reasons for going [...]

What’s the worst thing that could happen during a job interview? Perhaps a fire alarm.
Fortunately I was the interviewer rather than the interviewee, but if it was me sitting there waiting to answer an hour of questions about myself I can’t imagine I’d have been too happy at the prospect of clambering down five floors [...]

I was interviewed by Danny Bradbury about Blogging for a Canadian radio show today. Hopefully a copy of it should be up on the show’s site when it goes live, so I’ll listen in if I can. It was interesting being asked about my own blogging experinces, though, as usually I just get to recommend [...]

In the early hours of Monday morning, I do some blogging on the radio, in a regular slot on Through the Night on LBC. It’s good fun, but not nearly as easy as blogging online, where you don’t have to worry about spelling out URLs and hoping your audience manages to copy them down properly.
Of [...]