Nigeness

 The other day I came across this charming little poem by Iain Crichton Smith – Two Girls Singing It neither was the words nor yet the tune ...

  Today, I learn, is Bedfordshire Day. Who knew there was such a thing? Radio 3 was making the most of it this morning, with various Bedford...

 I watched another episode of The Sea of Faith last night – number four (not yet on the BBC iPlayer but available, with blurry visuals, on ...

 The first time I put up a Wilhelm Kempff post – this one – it attracted more readers than anything in years. So, as it's Kempff's b...

 BBC4 – which, for much of the time, is the only BBC channel worth watching – no longer has a budget for making new programmes. This apparen...

 Here's a question that I think would flummox everyone in any literary quiz:  Whose first novel begins with this sentence?  'In this...