Hello Peoples,
I hopethis finds you well.
It's only 4 days to go until the joy of opening up the advent calendar - but to have one with chocolate in or not? I don't know. I could happily be overexcited with a plump breasted red robin every morning but I fear that the allure of sticky fingered chocolate covered school clothes/bed linen/walls will win out. I know. I lack the fortitude for modern parenting. I also realised this week that I am very out of touch. We live up in North East London, a part of town that has now been featured in Italian Vogue because it is so achingly avant garde. What that means is that lots of people without very much money moved there a while ago and now have voices loud enough to shout 'Over here! Look at us!' So I didn't think anything of the fact that whilst out and about over the last few weeks I have seen a lot of men sporting tiny pencil moustaches a la Matthew Williamson and tra la la people of that ilk. I didn't even bat an eyelid on seeing a couple of girls sporting stick- on versions in our local café the other day. I took it all in my stride and gave them a look which would have been captioned 'Aren't you just darlin' with your fashionable ways?' It turns out people all over the country are doing this in aid of the fight against prostate cancer which I only realised when one of you super people sent me an email alerting me to the fact that November has been the month to 'Grow a Mo and Save a Bro'. Never has there been a better slogan. I'd be grateful if you could all keep me up to date with the modern world. It'll make for better radio that's for sure. Also, thank you hugely to whoever bid a massive £1,600 for our guestbook , in aid of Children in Need. I wish I knew your name so I could thank you more personally - but we are all grateful and we have already started the next one - daubed by Robert Lindsay as an opener. We'll put that up for sale next November. Right. No more newsletter chugging.
This week we'll be talking about writing to people on Death Row, we have a perfumier coming into the studio (possibly not great radio, but I'll try), Monty Don does our Inheritance Tracks and the sound sculpture returns. Novelist Justin Cartwright is our guest.
Speak to you on Saturday
xfi
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