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We all popped into Hereford today, to buy some creosote to get over my clothes and into my eyes and also to some extent on our ricketty backyard fence. Also, I planned to visit the Hereford HSBC branch while we were there. My old Mum was kind enough to send me a cheque for my recent birthday, scraped together out of her meagre pension, . . . → Read More: Radio HSBC  It has been a very interesting experience making the programme for Radio Four about the North/South divide. As I followed the line across England on the map drawn up by Prof. Danny Dorling of Sheffield University, I became convinced that the divide, unsurpisingly really, has some substance. Mostly, though, I was struck by the fact that many of these divisions have roots deep in . . . → Read More: Us (us us us us) and Them (them them them them) I’m in the middle of making a short series for Radio Four with producer Mary Ward-Lowery about a series of journeys we’re taking along the line drawn by Prof. Danny Dorling of Sheffield University which divides the north from the south. We have met some wonderful people, including the sagacious Sir Michael Darrington, esrtwhile boss of Greggs, the orchidaceous psycho-geographer Tina Richardson in Leeds, . . . → Read More: Spitfires on the Line. We drove to Cambridge yesterday to pick up some stuff, and on the way I bought the Radio Times and i, both of which had favouable things to say about the psycho-geography show on Radio Three. When we got home,there was a parcel waiting, with my first copy of ‘Something of the Night’ inside. Stayed up till much too late, while I read bits . . . → Read More: Good weekend so far, touch wood. This is Sir Michael Darrington. If anybody knows anything about growth, it’s him, because for over 20 years he ran Greggs, to whose products I owe a great deal of my personal growth – and I don’t mean that in any spiritual sense. I heard him today on ‘Any Answers’ on Radio Four. He was just a punter, a caller-in, but he made so . . . → Read More: Greggs vs. Growth. |
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