Good morning to all bloggers and assorted members of the new bloggers band, whatever you call yourselves. Modesty forbids my contribution; I'd offer you my primary school cello but I could barely play a note. Ever.
Hope the weekend was a fine one. My paper is reviewing just 2 TV shows this morning and they are the only 2 I watched: Howard Goodall's History of Music and Wonders of Life with Prof Brian Cox. Both great and both brimful of info you wished you'd learnt at school. Or maybe I was taught it but wasn't listening. I shall invite both Howard and Brian round for tea or Drivetime duties or both. I can't pretend I followed everything (understatement) but I love being told stuff by people who know stuff and who are delighting in telling me stuff (I think that's a quote from Lord Reith isn't it?).
Books then. Bookclub is back. Award-winning crime novelist, Belinda Bauer, joins us to talk about Rubbernecker. She burst onto the crime scene in 2010, scooping the CWA Gold Dagger for Best Crime Novel of the Year - Blacklands. You can read some on this site! It's good to have the bookclub back and over the year we will be offering you some sparkling new books with, and excuse the cliche, something for everyone. And still with literary matters, let's do PRIDE AND PREJUDICE oldies. It is 200 years old today It is being marked today by, amongst other things, a ‘readathon’ of the novel at the Jane Austen Centre in Bath. And theres a web broadcast, linking up with Jane Austen societies around the world.More importantly, P&P tunes from you.
Have a bright-eyed and bushy-tailed Monday. See you after 5.
