Category: On Writing

  • Secrets And Story

    I was listening to the ‘Infinite Monkey Cage‘ on Radio 4 on my home from work this evening. They were discussing code-breaking and the extraordinary achievements of the team working at Bletchley Park during WWII. There were about 10,000 people working there and all were sworn to secrecy, with something like only 6 people in the…

  • Getting It Writ

    I’m trying to write a short story for the Get it Writ competition as part of the Essex Book Festival 2013. A story in 500 words sounds a bit of a challenge so I thought I’d have a go but I’m not getting very far at the moment. I sit and look at a blank page and then…

  • Reading and Writing

    I seem to have been reading avidly recently. One good book after another. After almost nodding off in front of the TV last night I went to bed and then decided to dip into ‘Mr. Rosenblum’s List’ by Natasha Solomons before I went off to sleep proper. With only one-and-a-half chapters to go I could surely read…

  • Reading & Meditation

    I’ve just managed to hear the last part of Open Book on Radio 4. It seems I’ll have to wait a while for it to be available on iPlayer. Mariella Frostrup was talking to Edmund White and it was interesting to hear him say that part of him would have liked to have settled down and to…

  • BBC – Radio 4 – Afternoon Reading

    The Mural At Frau Krausers by James Hopkin, read by Tom Goodman-Hill. The narrator stares at the green mural at Frau Krausers – a seedy tavern under an iron railway bridge in Berlin. He knows he should leave, but one beer leads to another. Producer Rosalynd Ward. I was listening to this on the way…