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Wound up down by the swimmin' hole

Simon Mayo

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Oh right then, Monday morning here again. That was quick! Barely had the weekend started than the whole thing was over. Went to see The Party and The Death of Stalin (again) which seemed decadent in the extreme.

(In between this paragraph and the next, the paramedics arrived to sort a small emergency. They've now left, emergency over. Blog is late...)

So here we are with another top week on DT. Today's top guest is Philip Pullman whose new book is La Belle Sauvage, the first part of his new Book of Dust trilogy. I loved the His Dark Materials series, books of astonishing imagination, so have been looking forward to this for years. It manages to be an older kids book, a YA book and an adult book all in one. Philip after 6.

And it's AUTUMNWATCH again? The new series starts at 8 and those Autumnwatch tunes for Chris Packham, Michaela Strachan and Martin Hughes-Games plus assorted creatures...

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