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Wanderin' Star

Simon Mayo|08:48 UK time, Wednesday, 5 October 2011

All hail and welcome to Wednesday, a wild and windy one around the estate. I really should have cut the grass when it was dry; it could well be tall and soggy 'till March now. It will mock me daily. Maybe if I move the trampoline around it'll disguise the lawn's deficiencies and no one will notice. Maybe decking is the answer.

Really enjoyed talking to George Alagiah yesterday - he has an interesting story to tell. And when heavy-hitting journalists come to Radio 2, they always grin a lot. It is, I think, rock 'n' roll. They love the music all right but the casualness of music radio feels light years away from theirs. And when a genuine star like Jamie Cullum wanders in to talk jazz, the icing is on the cake.

And today Lee Childs takes centre stage as the multi-million best seller releases another Jack Reacher novel - 'The Affair'. Lee ( real name Jim Grant) is actually from Coventry and, like Bernard Cornwell, worked in TV on shows such as Prime Suspect and Brideshead Revisited before marrying an American and moving there. There's a Jack Reacher novel sold somewhere in the world every 20 seconds and now there's another one to add to the measly 50million sales he has so far. If BTBOBE was for women readers, then LC is for men. The covers demand this conclusion, whatever the merits of the story. BTBOBE is all pink and LC is all grimy yellow with a broody loner, a police car and some train tracks. Sounds like a cue for a country song.

Oldies! Tunes! Ideas! How about THE KISS? Rodin's great sculpture has gone on display in Margate but was considered indecent when it was unveiled in 1904. Since then opinion has shifted somewhat (ridiculous understatement) and it's one of our most loved works of art now. So let's do THE KISS. All 4 and a half tonnes of it.

Have an inspiring and intriguing Wednesday, see you after 5.

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