Seas roll to waft me; suns to light me rise; my foot-stool earth, my canopy the sky

Studio day - recording new 60 min play - “The Night of the Lunar Eclipse” - at Broadcasting House.

Enjoyed Summerfolk at the NT last night - moments before the revolution….

George Gershwin died aged 38 - and his last words were “Fred Astaire”

every new release by Peter Sandberg is a little treat

The Pitt is as good as medical drama gets

Schubert died aged 31 - the last piece of music he wanted to hear -Beethoven's string quartet no.14 www.youtube.com/watch?v=hE0j...

West Ham poetry

The Baz Luhman Elvis concert film EPIC is magnificent. (Way better than his biopic.)

Blonde Redhead utterly superb at the Barbican tonight - timeless and mesmeric

Last night’s dream - I was cooking an exotic potato

by the mid-20th century, Shakespeare’s Richard III had been seen by only a few million people in 364 years. Then in 1956 Laurence Olivier’s film aired on NBC to 40 million viewers — multiplying its audience by seven overnight

one of the neighbours just yelled: "Shout to the top."

Bruce Springsteen enters the conversation. www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWKS...

Thinking about how Mel Brooks was David Lynch’s perfect producer on The elephant Man

Drops of God 2nd series starts on Wednesday - Apple TV - loved the first series.

25 years ago we made this

Available on Sounds www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

I got a Christmas card from an airport.

Martin Parr RIP

"all just laws condemn cruelty"

As an aspiring Playwright, when I was 15, i wrote to Tom Stoppard and then had a correspondence with him - he couldn't have been more charming and supportive to someone who he didn't know. He was a great man. And then there's this:

"I am going to take a heroine whom no one but myself will much like."

I was staring at a crumbling ancient brick wall with wooden stops holding it up - and the words 'flying buttress' came into my head - words i haven't heard, used, or thought about for years - and yet they're words lurking in my subconscious ready to surprise. Language is an incredible facility.

this is brilliant: www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0it...

Playing On Nature of Daylight after the 2 minutes of silence was the perfect choice #Radio3

Enjoying the double bill of vintage comb over quizzes on bbc four

THE DAGENHAM PORKCHOP - is on at 2.15pm today on BBC Radio 4. (And on BBC Sounds afterward.) www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

New drama: The Dagenham Porkchop by @broughton500.bsky.social 1415 today @BBCRadio4 Ronny 'The Dagenham Porkchop' is an old wrestler with a painful past. Stars Robert Glenister, Ron Cook, Holli Dempsey & Lisa Palfrey. Sound by Nigel Lewis. Directed by John Norton www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Saw The Weir tonight (25+ years after last seeing it on its premier.). Recommended.

the forbidden portal

Tuesday on BBC Radio 4 (4th Nov) www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

The Chair Company is making me laugh a lot

4th November

rip

Last night’s dream - scuba diving in a small muddy pond

In Cardiff BBC Studio - day one of recording

The Mall tonight

Love Rameau

French baroque is so French #proms #bbcfour

There's a 6-part drama series in this.

Where the executioner’s face is always well hidden

I stumbled on seven misty mountains

I am other people