On not winning the Nobel Prize

I had read several reports of Doris Lessing’s acceptance speech for the Nobel prize in Literature, but only found the full text by accident. Strange how we fall into these traps. I know the media will rarely give me the whole story, and what I read will be a garbled report missing the essence of [...]



At The Shed

We were at The Shed as part of an invited audience to help Graham Fellows record a half-hour programme for Radio Four.
Fellows is a British comedian, perhaps better known to many people in his incarnation of John Shuttleworth, an aspiring singer/songwriter from Sheffield in South Yorkshire, and a bit of a nerd.
The recording for Radio [...]






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