Today Programme
Naughtie Boy
This morning, I was getting ready for work while listening to Radio 4′s Today Programme. That’s just the way I roll. I skipped breakfast, which is probably just as well because this NSFW gem would have made me drop my toast: God bless you, James Naughtie – you made my day! I went to work [...]
More PKD on the Radio…
To elaborate on that previous post (which, truth be told, I knocked out in a bit of a rush): The Today programme’s Jim Naughtie was talking to David Davis (ex-shadow home secretary) and Derek Barnett (vice president of the Police Superintendents’ Association of England & Wales) about calls for a debate about how police should [...]
Philip K. David Davis
Former shadow home secretary David Davis was just on Radio 4′s Today programme. He was discussing the role of police crowd control following the G20 demonstrations. He said that policing in this country is in danger of becoming increasingly ‘pre-crime‘ based. David Davis a PKD fan? Who’d a thought it…
Danse Macabre
“Sometime in mid-July 1518, in the city of Strasbourg, a woman stepped into the street and started to dance.” There was a fascinating piece on this morning’s Today Programme about a historical curiosity I’d never heard of before. This dancing woman was soon joined by others – men, women and children – and by the [...]
When life turns into a Robert Anton Wilson novel
It was 8am and I was driving to work, listening to Radio 4′s Today Programme as John Humpreys served me a hearty breakfast of headlines. He told me that Republican Presidential candidate John McCain had promised to transform Washington and win back public trust. He said something about research indicating that some food prices had [...]
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