Tag: reading
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27 December 2025
Radio edit this week. If you like books, these are good places for books in the UK. Slightly Foxed, beautifully produced books – reprints of old novels or biographies which are worth the reprinting. Rough Trade Books – from the Rough Trade records people, this is an interesting independent publisher. Plus Craig Oldham is the…
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15 – 24 December 2025
Radio edit this week. Thursday, 18 December Sunrise is past 8am. There’s always talk about scrapping daylight saving, but if we did, which way would we go? This survey from 2019 found that “the majority of Britons (59%) would opt to remain permanently on summer time, sacrificing light in the morning in the winter for…
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25-29 August 2025
Tuesday Sunrise: 6:03am “This is wrong, right?”“Yes. Wrong platform?”“Right.” They’ve switched things around. I had three minutes to get to a platform four minutes away and, after somehow getting there on time, there was no train. Together, the stranger and I stand on the right wrong platform and hesitate. There’s a lot of stairs between…
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11-15 August 2025
Monday Sunrise: 5:40am Saw T in a field full of clover and birds foot trefoil. I wasn’t sure it was him for a minute but he shouted and waved so I tracked back to meet him. We talked for so long that I ditched my plans and walked back with him the way I came.…
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4 – 8 August 2025
Monday Sunrise: 5:29am Car crash moon: waxing gibbous, 10 days old. It’s not even full, but it’s low enough to catch your attention and turn your head. Low enough to bang your head, maybe. This morning, the biggest of the morning glory twirled right off the top of its bamboo cane and continued into…
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30 June – 4 July 2025
Monday Sunrise: 4:47am “She said some days she just gets up at four and goes into the garden…” “Not a bad idea. At least it’s cool.” “She said she listens to the birds and watches the sun rise.” It’s 2am and I can’t sleep. I wonder how we slept in Athens, then I remember the…
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16 – 20 June 2025
Monday Sunrise: 4:43am “Reflect from your shadow” says the sign above the entrance to the Elizabeth Line. On my back I’m carrying the heat of a tiny sun. My laptop has, it turns out, been running all night. Confined to a backpack it feels like it’s about to burn. On the platform I haul it…
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19 – 23 May 2025
Monday Sunrise: 5:02am I went to Sutton Hoo last week and loved it. All the volunteers were friendly and each one told us something new, something that fascinates them about the history or what was found there. And what a place of finds! Imagine being so loved, feared or revered that you’re buried with such…
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21 – 25 April 2025
Tuesday Sunrise: 5:49am The man in the seat opposite jiggles his foot up and down and I feel it through the soles of my trainers. His eyes are closed as if he’s sleeping, but I think not. One stop later his head is drooping but when we pull into the next station his eyes slide…
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