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EP1, 2 Jan 2023, Monday Evening Show, Bay Trust Radio… 7pm (GMT)
In this show I celebrated musical artists who died in 2022, and the Start Me Up Game returned, together with the first Gig Guide of the year
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Another free audiobook finished …
I’ve just completed narrating The Man with the Black Feather by Gaston Leroux (translated by Edgar Jepson), for Librivox.org, the free audiobook provider…
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EP168, 26 Dec 2022, Monday Evening Show, Bay Trust Radio… 7pm (GMT)
Long tracks come to the Monday Evening Show (MES) tonight including the best of Lemon Jelly, Underworld and Pink Floyd…
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EP167, 19 Dec 2022, Monday Evening Show, Bay Trust Radio… 7pm (GMT)
Christmas came to the Monday Evening Show (MES) this week with some 12 Yule-tastic alternative tracks which were outside the normal playlisted Xmas choons. I paid tribute to Keith Richards just 79 years old on 18 Dec and paid my debt to Fylde Coast poet David Whittman
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EP166, 12 Dec 2022, Monday Evening Show, Bay Trust Radio… 7pm (GMT)
This week I paid tribute to Jet Black, drummer for the iconic new wave band, the Stranglers. I also played music by Merseyside singer-songwriter John Witherspoon, the Chameleons (a post-punk band with 40 years longevity who are touring locally), and Vanessa Paradis plus 30 other alternative songs…. Listen hereAdvertisement
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Wise words …
with thanks to https://www.authorspublish.com for pointing out this especially pertinent quotation from the author of the 1961 novel Catch-22, a satirical story of war and bureaucracy, whose title has become a synonym for an absurd or contradictory choice
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Incredible I know but …
I’ve recorded a 4th audiobook, which is free to listen to. It’s “The Dark Road” by Gaston Leroux (author of “The Phantom of the Opera”) and it’s available from Librivox.org, the public domain audiobook provider.
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Illuminating Hadrian’s Wall
Drawn by the first-ever lighting of the 70-mile monument from end to end, thousands of visitors filled every local car park, lay-by and footpath, while helicopters and a NASA satellite recorded the necklace of beacons from above. I played my part!
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Other videos I’ve made
I’ve added a new page to my blog to feature other videos I’ve made …
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In the park
I had an appointment to get my laptop battery fixed. But before the appointment I ate a sandwich in Preston’s attractive, undulating Winckley Square park, within a square containing some fine original buildings. I recorded a few observations on my phone, transcribed below and now I can delete my recordings. As you read the few…
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