Community Media Festival 2025
At the start of this month I spent a long weekend in Manchester for the annual Community Media Association festival, which this year took place at BBC Quay House, MediaCityUK in Salford. Continue reading
Month: October 2025
Tiggy Walker’s Book Tour
Last Thursday I did a day trip down to the South Coast where I saw Tiggy Walker, widow of Radio 2 DJ Johnnie Walker, doing a talk about her book ‘Both Sides Now’, all about her role as his carer during his final year of life. Continue reading
He travels the fastest who travels alone
Built in the 1600s, Bateman’s was the home of Rudyard Kipling – author of the Jungle Book, and Just So Stories (amongst others) – from the early 1900s until his death in 1936. It was handed over to the National Trust when his wife died in 1939. Continue reading