Category: Latest
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Radio Seagull show 51 1st November 2024
Don’t the weeks roll by? Here is another chance to listen to my music radio show, broadcast 1st November 2024 from the lightship Jenny Baynton in Harlingen Harbor, Netherlands. You’ll hear music from rock, pop and alternative, disparate artists including Vanessa Paradis, The Jam, Bran Van 3000 and Jamie Cullum. As I say in the…
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Stockport, 30 Oct 2024
As part of mine and my old schoolfriends continual exploration of suitable beer haunts in North West England, the magnetic compass this time had pointed to Stockport. Someone’s brother had done some drinking here before, but too long ago to mention. The rest of us had never previously graced any of its hallowed halls. Having…
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“10cc: Best of the 70s” Disky Compilation (Released 2000) Review: Music, History, and Gizmo
Having read more record reviews than I’ve had hot dinners in my youth, in such august journals as the New Musical Express (NME), Sounds, Melody Maker, Q, Uncut, and Mojo, I’ve decided it would be a great feat for me, to review all of my own CDs in alpha order. I currently have 374 CDs…
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My new audiobook is available
George Orwell, like many other intellectuals, including notably Ernest Hemingway, became in the early 1940s part of the drive to fight the Fascist menace in the Spanish Civil War. He detailed his experiences in his novel “Homage to Catalonia”. And this post deals with my narration of that audiobook. Hemingway is perhaps more famous for…
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What a world we live in today
Most days I go for a walk, often through this attractive residential area nearby. Here are a few questions that occurred to me today…
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A Three-Day Journey Through Andalusia: Memories of Winter 2008
Allow me to take you on a journey back in time, to the crisp days early January 2008 when my work had led me to the vibrant city of Gibraltar. During the festive break we embarked on a three-day sightseeing expedition through the heart of Andalusia. Olvera: A Town of Unexpected Adventures Out first stop…
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EP32, 7 Aug 2023, Monday Evening Show, Bay Trust Radio… 7pm (GMT)
Listen back to my 200th show on Bay Trust Radio and some great music from Stevie Wonder, Nik Kershaw and Depeche Mode to name a few. Return of the SMUG game and another weekly gig guide.
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The Boy Travellers in Australasia
It’s my latest audiobook available for free on LibriVox.org, the Internet Archive, and YouTube. 14 hours of listening. 14 hours of reading by me!
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EP27, 3 Jul 2023, Monday Evening Show, Bay Trust Radio… 7pm (GMT)
Listen back to Show 27 and some great music from Air, The Bar Stool Preachers, Daft Punk, Daniel Tashian, and even Elton John to name a few. Return of the SMUG game and another weekly gig guide.