When there's big news on, I do hate not being at work. I feel so disconnected without access to Wires, Network talkback and other magical systems we have to keep across things ( Read more... )

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Our New Year's Eve tradition is to cook a nice meal, pop the telly on (generally Graham Norton's New Year's Eve show and then Jools Holland's Hootenanny) and do a jigsaw puzzle. Generally the full 1000 pieces in one night ( Read more... )

At work we sometimes have to play trails out for our local audience - both before/after the news and in random junctions throughout the day. Generally they're for one of our regional programmes or for local radio, or ahead of the Olympic Torch Relay we played ones advertising when it was coming to our patch. In the run up to a sporting cup final ( Read more... )

10 years ago yesterday (or tomorrow, depending how you look at it) Guido flew to Helsinki to visit me for the weekend ( Read more... )

So what did you do with your day today Emma?

Oh, you went to see the Sam Mendes version of Cabaret, starring Alan Cumming, which you've wanted to see for over a decade and thought you would never get the chance to without a time machine set to the 1990s?

Well, I suppose that must have been awesome?

(Why yes, yes it was.)

Hi America! I'm in your country, eating your ridiculously calorific food ( Read more... )

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Philip LarkinThose long uneven lines ( Read more... )

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