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Programme Producer, Newsnight. Also awake in the morning.
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Some scholars now think that primitive recording devices had previously been developed that could still have been familiar to people in Handel’s time, as this fragment clearly shows
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As a provincial dad, obvs potholes are my obsession
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Really interesting piece, thanks
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Minor key carols are often the best too
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Zadie or Alan?
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Faber kids books! My heart! [sigh]
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Aaaand Robert Macfarlane to write The Old Ways and recurs this album with Johnny Flynn
open.spotify.com/album/6QHtxv...
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Also inspired this great Mercury Rev song
open.spotify.com/track/10jl9G...
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I have not! Thanks for the tip
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They are more poetically written (with brooding hints of Ted Hughes, say, in the their imagery), and have an incredible sense of place and history. Definitely deserve their place in the canon.
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I also read them for the first time last winter - Over Sea, Under Stone definitely the outlier in that it feels more like Nesbitt/CS Lewis, whereas later books, especially The Dark is Rising and Greenwitch, take place in a grander, more mythic space.
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Having your slightly sozzled Strictly pod pop up in my feed was *such* a delightful early Christmas present!
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I was born in a year too!
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You’ve got at least one definite viewer right here 🫡
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And actually prompted me to go back and listen to some of the later Divine Comedy albums that I’d dismissed at the time. Thanks, Wonka!
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It’s a good soundtrack though
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Dammit why did I click on the Grifters Starter Pack
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“You’re on your own again,
And you’re your best again.
That’s what you tell yourself”
Scott Walker won’t let us get away with any self-deception.
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I almost smashed my phone in disgust when this became apparent