Category Archives: BBC

Where I am writing Betwixt – and why it’s so slow

That’s the Euston road in sunnier times (2011). And a few yards away is this Which is the British Library. On Saturday the Radio 4 documentary I made with Vera Frankl about some of the readers at the British Library is broadcast. … Continue reading

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Grayson Perry and the travel pussy

It’s one part Hugh Hefner to another part Bond this morning, the first time in my life I have spent from waking until late afternoon in a bathrobe. Frustuk in the Capuchin wing of the monastery (those old monks presumably … Continue reading

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