My book #IntoTheGroove is published in North America tomorrow. I have no big launch plans, but reposts will be welcome. Thanks.

Hats off to Edward Stourton. Excellent journalist and broadcaster. Very much enjoyed his account of the BBC in WW2 "Auntie's War."

When are Pragvec on?

Spanish Radio Orchestra about to enter a Likely Lads Scenario.#proms

This is being repeated and is available on Sounds. Magnificent Radio. Audio. Pictures in your mind.

Hats off to David Willey. Brilliant journalist and correspondent.

Buses replace trams eh? They may give it a go, but they don't.

You'd think after 40 years of the internet, robots would know what a traffic light looks like by now.

Respect is due to this Summer Cold. Up there with the best I've had. Two bananas, Coffee, Pills, Some sort of Ginger/Turmeric thing and I'm just about ready for work. Let's hope so anyway.

Off to bed. Keep the noise down, some of us have got work in the morning.

"Thornhill! Roger Thornhill." Currently on BBC2.

This is good. Ideal listening during a heatwave.

Happy Birthday to Marcel Proust and also to @marcrileydj.bsky.social xx

Hats off to Patricia Greene. Jill Archer for nearly 70 years. This is a great episode of Desert Island Discs.

I may as well marry Delay Repay and be done with it.

Coventry. 40 years on from coming here. Stan Ridgeway played Freshers Week. Not many there but he was great. Did Lost Weekend. As did Ray Milland but he didn't play Cov Poly.

On a diverted train. It's rarely a good sign when you dawdle through Bescot Stadium.

Many thanks to Dave

Never mind the Likely Lads Scenario, I intend to read the result when the papers arrive tomorrow #fattyowls

Mel is 100! LA 2016

Preparing to say goodbye to the mighty BBC Radio 4 Long Wave broadcast. The first service began 101 years ago. The transmitters at Droitwich, Westerglen and Burghead will be switched off at 0100 BST on Saturday. The 200 metre long AM signal at 198 Khz goes right through you and sounds fabulous!

Made it to the finish/starting line. This is my 9th album, Bring Our Light To Every Corner It features some absolutely incredible people on it, but mostly it’s the best album I could make and probably have made yet. Proud and tired (can you see in my eyes I’ve been up since 3:45 fretting?)

Cab confusion. Wrong pick up location. Phones not working or not answered. Just like old times. 40 mins delay. Cat will be furious.

A relative's death leads the English viola player and vocalist to a meditation on grief and rebirth, backed by a soundscape of drones and crows Alison Cotton - The Gods Laugh buff.ly/GLzY20f

In honour of the late Paul Ritter, I have spent much of the day topless save for an apron.

Lovely celebration of @resonancefm.bsky.social

Belated Solstice greetings. The boy visited and gave me a bottle of Pastis. Salut!

Looking forward to playing Dundee this evening with our friends, Belle & Sebastian. The Caird Hall too! We are on at 8pm.

RIP Roy Hattersley. A fine, properly decent old-school socialist politician. (I once saw him speak at a conference at Birmingham uni when I was at school - they’d taken us up there as part of our Sociology O level course, comprehensive schools did that back then). www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Truly Gifted Kids:A Book About A Band Called Prefab Sprout by @nigetassell.bsky.social Nige sets out to uncloak the enigma in this deepest dive ever made into Paddy McAloon’s craft, motivations and methods Personal and poetic, a true labour of love about labours of love 13-08-26 tr.ee/-BLPqLQ27t

Photo by Art Kane (in repost re Sonny Rollins)

RIP Sonny Rollins, a great jazz talent and the last surviving musician in one of the best photos of men in suits during the 20th century

Thanks Sonny. RIP.

If you want those singles they are 3 bob each. Subterranean Homesick Blues Maggies Farm Like a Rolling Stone’ I think that his latest is great it’s called “One of us must know” I have not got “Bringin’ it all back on Home” LP yet but I am getting it on Sat. See you Friday Trevor

Radhika's 'Cine-Pop' released today on all Digital platforms alongside LP & CD 🍓🍓🍓🍓 glassmodern.bandcamp.com/album/cine-pop open.spotify.com/album/6PvT6M... @glassmodernr.bsky.social @billyreevesok.bsky.social @thepastels.bsky.social @gidcoe.bsky.social @bmxbanditsduglas.bsky.social

Merlin: How many times do I have to tell you? It's a CHIFF CHAFF!

Next week on the Riley and Coe franchise, we'll be playing some tunes from the following NME Cassettes MON: Pogo A Gogo TUES: We Have Come for Your Children WEDS: C86 (40 years on) THURS: Stomping at the Savoy.

Very excited to announce I’ll be presenting a show this coming Thursday 21st May at midnight on BBC6music as part of the Freak Zone playlist. Hope you can tune in. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Not a leather jerkin song.

"Abide With Me". Lovely. Now back to the cricket.

There goes Alan Rothwell. Picture Box was a magical programme.

Busy time for whoever is in charge of hail.

A conversation with a stranger took a turn for the political today and I firmly and politely offered an alternative view. Batting away the regurgitation of lies and myths. Nothing heroic here at all, just a very unusual thing for me to do.

Swifts over Kilburn!

It's a book about every single released by BBC Records And Tapes, but it's also about once massive but now forgotten TV shows, eccentric radio presenters and some of the least excusable 'pop' discs ever released. Top Of The Box - available from here! timworthington.org/books/top-of...

Back to "all this" after 24 hours in Helsinki. Including a haircut. What a beautiful city. I hope to visit again though I'll have to get another paper round.

Breakfast in Helsinki accompanied by Jimmy Clanton singing "Venus in Blue Jeans". Possibly the most 1962 of all records.

Remind me baby of you