A Dusty Old Blog

Hello. Ah, I see you've found your way on to my old blog. Things are a bit sparse round here as I've been moving everything over to my new site. Here's where the Stanley Kubrick's Boxes post lives now.

I really should have posted about this earlier but time escaped me a little. There's a brilliant little short horror film festival going on right now in Auchmithie, near Arbroath, Scotland. The Village of the Damned is being put on by Helen Macdonald (of Jolly Good) and Ross Bull (of Agitator) over the Hallowe'en weekend. If by any chance you're near enough to get to it, go, go go. You can find all the information you need on their blog.

As well as the films, a small group of artists (including myself) will be selling work during the festival. I unfortunately can't make it up there in person but if you come across a print or something then it might be mine. For more information about the artists, go here.

Have a good Hallowe'en folks. Don't dress sexy, don't dress wacky, don't be a celebrity or a superhero. BE SCARY! and if you can't be scary, be wonderful.

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A few days back I mentioned a huge art sale at the awesome My Love For You Is A Stampede of Horses. Well, the online shop is live now and all sorts of drawings, paintings, prints, jewellery, sculpture and more is up for grabs.

Some important facts:

1. All proceeds are going to the Gulf Restoration Network. Artists have put their work on sale as a donation to help out. Many items are free shipping too.

2. The shop is only open for a limited time. If you want to grab a bargain (and do a good deed) you have until the 5th of July.

3. Everything seems to be selling out fast, so don't hang about. Tweet / email / blog etc. to spread the word. Get everything bought.

4. You can go directly to the shop by clicking here.

Please have a look, you might find something you like. I'm happy to say that my drawing sold on the first day! Big love to Meighan for organising everything and to all the artists who contributed. Make sure you subscribe to My Love For You... because it's a great place to discover all sorts of brilliant art, design and general cool stuff.

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Meighan from the fantastic My Love For You Is A Stampede of Horses has been gathering together artists to submit work to a huge art sale. All proceeds will go to help tackle the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

I'm very happy to be taking part. The above video is a tiny work-in-progress of the Treebark drawing I'm providing. Keep tuned here and to My Love For You... for more info. I think the sale will start on Monday 28th. Not only will you be getting the chance to pick up work by some really great artists, you'll be helping out the Gulf Restoration Network too.

My drawing will probably be $55 with $5 postage. If someone buys it, I'll donate back the postage to the GRN myself with a little extra on top. Even if you hate the drawing, buy it anyway. I'll be just as happy.

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A few years ago I read a comic by Souther Salazar called Fervler 'n' Razzle in the anthology Kramers Ergot 5. It was a beautifully weird collage of cut paper, drawings and text that told a tale (or two) about an 'ancient giant bird' called Fervler and 'either a squirrel or a mouse or a cat' called Razzle. I really loved it and have tried to keep up with Salazar's work ever since.

Comics are just the start, this dude is a damn fine maker-of-things. Paintings, sculpture, collage, installations all jumble together in colourful little worlds full of weird monsters and landscapes. I remember being so charmed by his work that I tried to emulate his style a little in a few drawings - it didn't work (it never does), I guess that's a compliment of sorts. Man, his art looks fun to make.

Yesterday my copy of Salazar's new zine, The Day We Learned To Fly arrived. I've made a little flick-through video to let people see it. My intention is to show off the really neat layout with it's different colours and fold-out parts rather than to 'spoil' the artwork by revealing everything. Hopefully I flip through it quickly enough leave you wanting a closer look. By the sound of things, The Day We Learned... has sold out anyway, but I'll not go crazy with scans or anything incase another batch appears for sale. Watch in HD for goodness.

For more Souther Salazar things, you can visit his website, add him on Facebook or follow the blog he co-writes with Monica Choy. His etsy shop has some really nice prints and you can read a great making-of post about the zine here.

The music in my clip is once again from John's ABC by Fence. This track 'J' (they're all lettered) just so happened to be exactly the right length. Not much more thought went into the decision than that.

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A new exhibition, All I Heard Was The Echo In The Light, by Christopher Bettig opens this week at Analogue in Edinburgh. It should be a good one.

If you can make it along on Friday 4th June for the reception, do. Analogue openings are always great. I've not been to Edinburgh in ages, man. Hopefully the weather behaves. I hear Russell (the hairy one) is away to fetch Christopher from the airport today.

After that, the show runs until the 10th of July. Analogue's blog mentions that they're printing a t-shirt to go with the exhibition and that Bettig will be one of the next round of Early Griffin poster artists too. Keep your potatoes skinned for those.

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My 11th What I Wore Today drawing for the awesome Flickr group. If I'm being honest, this is what I wore 2 days ago. What I'm wearing now, a grey t-shirt and jeans, was too boring to draw.

Along with this post, I'd like to give some shout-outs. Firstly, thanks to everyone who has recently bought something from my shop. I've been totally blown away with the response and I'm feeling pretty motivated to make some new work. Thanks to Jez Burrows for putting my zine up on It's Nice That. I was hyped as hell. And although I'll never admit to namesearching, I have noticed a few blogs and tumblr things with links headed my way - so if you've been nice enough to point people in my direction, I'm very grateful.

Two sites in particular got in touch to say they featured me - Discreet Math and Sooner Than Now. Check out both of those - they're really fantastic.

Hello also to any new readers. Thanks for taking the time. If you're so inclined, subscribe to my blog and you'll be notified of any future nonsense. OK, that's enough. You'd think I'd won an Oscar.

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I just caught this great little video of Evan Hecox (of Chocolate Skateboards fame, amongst other things) at work on Kitsune Noir. It's amazing to see the process behind his work. All the photo-sourcing and line-blotting was really interesting. I guess I'm more used to seeing his super clean Chocolate work that it took me by surprise that there was so much going on behind the scenes in his other stuff.

As with most of these little 'artist at work' clips that come along, I find myself getting extremely jealous of both the lifestyle and day-to-day art-production of other artists. I know they maybe exaggerate all the bike-riding and paint-dripping that goes on because it looks cool on video, but c'mon. Where's the film about the guy hunching over a little piece of paper for 5 hours with the radio on? I ain't seen a pair of bleary eyes or an aching pinky yet.

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I'm always meaning to post more about work by other people. And, as with lots of things I'm meaning to do, I hardly ever get round to actually doing it. Well today I've gotten round to it. I've gotten right bloody round.

This work is by Sam Caldwell, a young artist from Bolton who goes by the name of Umbrella Head. I actually discovered Sam's (Head's?) art through the comments section of my blog and after I had a dig about his site, I was totally hyped on his work. Look at it!

Man he can conjure up atmosphere in spades. A real sense of life plodding along through some impending doom. That's what I get from it anyway. Maybe it's the weather - even in some of Sam's lighter pieces there's a heavy British sky pressing down on procedings or a cold and choppy sea crashing away in the background.

Vic Reeves' artwork comes to mind (in a good way) as does Lizzy Stewart's (also in a good way). Sam is only 19 or something ridiculous like that so you can tell he's really gonna be killing it in a couple of years. Check out his website. Oh, I just noticed he has a band too, I'll have a listen.

As a wee aside - I've been playing about with the image sizes for this post. If they're not displaying properly can someone let me know? Also, I love discovering new stuff - I always check out the work of people who comment here, so feel free to go crazy. Not that I can guarantee amazing levels of traffic or anything but someone might see it.

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This is a little late notice but it's worth a mention anyway. Over the past couple of days, I've been helping out at the Changing Room preparing the new exhibition A Narrative of Montage by The Fruitbasket Collective and Mike Chavez-Dawson.

The gallery is looking really good. It's a bit of a departure for the Changing Room, much more crazy and colourful than some previous shows. I knew very little about The Fruitbasket Collective before helping out, they've got a pretty neat surrealist / outsider art thing going on. I managed to find a snap of one of the pieces from A Narritive of Montage, check it:

That's a massive oil painting by Fruitbasket's main man, Jean-Pierre Lapeyre, titled Self Portrait as the Imprisioned. He's got a bunch of similar stuff alongside comics, sculptures and prints. His wife, Caroline Mackenzie Lapeyre exhibits some beautiful drawings and Mike Chavez-Dawson has some really cool laser-etched pieces.

The best thing is, Lapeyre also has a whole performance-art thing going on as his alter ego 'Jack The Hard Worker'. You can't beat a guy who'll paint himself blue and do some ironing in front of a crowd:

I'm reliably informed that he's gonna be psyching himself up for an appearance as 'Jack' tonight at the opening. Man, that's what you want from an art show - a dude jumping about in facepaint with a jumper on! I can't wait.

If you can make it to Stirling tonight, drop by, have a little drink and check out the show. Say hello. If not, it'll be up over the next month or so. As far as I know, JP plans to perform nearer the start of the night than the end, so move your bum. Here are the full details:

A Narrative of Montage
The Fruitbasket Collective and Mike Chavez-Dawson
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Show runs: 10th April - 22nd May
Private view: Friday 9th April, 7-9pm. All welcome
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The Changing Room
Tolbooth
Stirling
FK8 1DE
01786 274005

ps. if any of that sounded a bit sarcastic, I don't mean to be. I'm all for people going full-on. The wildest I get is perhaps doing a drawing with a little hat on.

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I've just done something I've been meaning to do for a while now. I've went and built myself a real website! Now, it's still very much in it's infancy and, like a stupid little kid, it's a bit simple. But hopefully over the next wee while I'll work away at it, give it a bit more personality and fill it up with new pictures.

I made the decision while re-jigging the artwork page on this blog. There's just too much stuff going on here. For someone new to my work, it's probably a little off-putting if the first thing they see is muggins photoshopping himself fat or posting extracts from a dumb book. Things needed changing - a little website for artwork and a blog for day-to-day stuff. This doesn't mean there'll be much difference here, content-wise, I'll still post all my new drawings and things, but maybe having the site will let me de-clutter good old bloggins a bit.

So, please visit davidgalletly.com - stick it in your bookmarks and check it out from time to time. It was built using the fantastic indexhibit. Any new stuff, announcements and updates will be posted here so if you'd like to keep track in your feed-reader of choice, subscribe away. I love you.

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Last week I had the opportunity to take an impromptu 1-day trip to Newcastle. The catch was that I had to spend the day there by myself until Alex would join me in the evening, about 8 hours worth of wandering. That wouldn't usually be a problem, it's a city, of course there's lots to do. I was excited.

Well, it was kinda a problem. I had no preparation time whatsoever and knew next to nothing about Newcastle. My only experience with the place was from visiting the Gateshead Garden Festival in 1990 (including a trip to the Metrocentre!) and maybe a couple of train-changes in the station. Fearing a long day of window shopping, I asked for some tips on Twitter and within about an hour, I had a full day planned.

By far the most helpful advice came from the awesome Newcastle-based Cloud Commission who let me know that there was a bloody great AV festival on the go (AV Festival 10). How lucky was that? He pointed out a few shows and events worth checking out as well as some other cool things around town. Here's what I did with my body and my brain:

First stop, Tyneside Cinema.
The festival hub was based in Tyneside Cinema, a great independent picture-house in the city centre. I headed here first, following my hastily printed Google map from the train station and politely refusing to give a man money for drugs. Inside, a series of staff members, each more lovely than the last, directed me to the Feral Trade Cafe where I sat with a hot chocolate and a programme.

Next up, Jenny Holzer
Before I left, the newspapers were full of reviews for Jenny Holzer's big exhibition at the Baltic. Being a bit stupid, I didn't put 2 and 2 together to work out that the damn thing was in Gateshead, where I was headed. The show was pretty extraordinary. Holzer's huge-scale LED work is definitely worth seeing in real life (you've got until 16th May). I've been joking that her work looks like the Fitter Happier computer took charge of the Blackpool illuminations.

On to Condemned_Bulbes
Alongside AAIIR, Cloud Commission tipped this as one of two must-see shows in the festival. So much so, he offered a prize-incentive to anyone who produced proof that they'd visited both of them. I'm happy to say that I was one of the winners! The exhibit, produced by Montreal studio Artificiel, was really cool. Huge lightbulbs were hung from the ceiling in a blacked-out hall and would glow, fizz and crackle as waves of electricity passed through them.

Where now? All Art Is, Is Rhythm
Forgive some of these photos being a bit blurry, I was often trying to snap them without being spotted by security. The other CC challenge was to snap yourself at It's In The Air by Felix Hess, part of the All Art Is, Is Rhythm show at the Hatton Gallery. The work, a room full of tiny paper flags that moved with the tiniest currents of air as you walked around was really wonderful. A simple, elegant idea executed perfectly.

I managed to catch a few other shows and did a good amount of shop-wandering too. Unfortunately the AV festival finished up on the 14th so I guess if you haven't been then you've already missed it. You should visit Newcastle though, it's very nice. Thanks to my Twitter friends for the tips, the whole process was a nice example of a very 2010 internet-meets-the-real-world moment.

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Oh So Beautiful Paper
With the wedding wheels beginning to turn, Oh So Beautiful Paper has been on the reading list for a little while now. Nole Garey's blog is an (appropriately) beautiful archive of invitations, cards, stationary and printwork. The above image of skeleton-key seat-finders is credited to The Haystack Needle. The one drawback to seeing so much elegant, delicate stuff is that it makes me feel super-clumsy and all-thumbs. Where are the crumbs and fingerprints?

Curious Pages
A recent discovery for me, Curious Pages hunts out weird and wonderful children's books form days gone by. There is TONS of cool stuff here and anyone with any interest in illustration should have a blast trawling through the archive. Any site with the tagline 'recommended inappropriate books for kids' is all good in my book. A really good resource for inspiration.

You Will Soon
This is actually my favourite blog at the moment but, with it being a skateboarding thing, I understand that it's got a bit of a niche audience. If that's your bag, however, You Will Soon is worth a read. It's a really nerdy, bitchy and funny little site, full of rumours, reviews and name calling. It's main author, Dan Watson, has an eye for detail and a bit of a poisonous pen. Luckily he's also got pretty good taste and a clear love of skateboarding so all the hate is kept humorous and aimed in the right direction.

I met Jeff Kilpatrick through my friend Concetta on our first trip to Philadelphia and we always hang out whenever we visit. Jeff is the kinda person you want to know when you're visiting a big city - a through-and-through local who always has a million stories to tell. He's also one of the nicest dudes you could ever meet and man, he cooks one hell of a meal.

Jeff is a working cartoonist, teacher and founder of the Philly Cartoonist Society. His artwork is awesome. He's got that real-deal, old-school thing going on. A real drawer. For the past couple of years he's been working on a series of drawings inspired by his neighbourhood called Sketches of Fishtown:

Apart from being fantastically touching little tributes to Fishtown in their own right, what really blows my mind is that Jeff has 95 of these under his belt. 95! The whole project is a funny, poignant and heartfelt document of a fascinating corner of the city. The first 50 or so are available in a book, click here for a little info from Jeff about picking up a copy or two. A second volume is in the works.

There's a really cool Flickr pool called What I Wore Today (in drawings). The idea being that you draw a picture of yourself wearing the clothes you picked out (or threw on) today. I decided I'd have a wee go, mainly for something to draw while sitting at the computer.

I found out about the site through the work of 3 different illustrators that I subscribe to: Jen Collins, Lizzy Stewart and Carolyn Alexander. Each participate fairly regularly and always have a great take on it. If you're not familiar with their work, have a look at what they're up to, they've got crazy skills.

As far as my regular participation goes, I'm not sure my patience is up to an endless stream of 'today I wore a shirt' / 'today I wore a t-shirt' drawings, but we'll see. Girls are better at this kinda thing.

There's two things I can go to if I'm feeling a bit stuck and I need some inspiration. Two things that motivate me more than almost anything. One is No Direction Home, the Bob Dylan documentary by Martin Scorsese and the other is the Directors Label Michel Gondry collection.

Yeah, well, who doesn't like Michel Gondry? He's the best. He puts that kinda perfect mix of child and adult in everything he does. Just ideas - bang, bang, bang, idea, idea, idea, one after the other. His execution, too, is spot on, all kinda scrappy and handmade. It almost seems like his ideas come out so fast that he can't waste time making the edges perfect. That little I've Been Twelve Forever film just gets you going, it just makes you want to make stuff.

Anyway, on the DVD there's a couple of videos for Gondry's band, Oui Oui. Since seeing them, years ago, I've been trying to find the songs online with no luck. Couldn't find them anywhere. Well, not until the other day at least when I had another search about, as I do from time to time, thinking 'right, I'm gonna find these bloody things', and you know what? I did. I found them. Some blog had put them up. They're pretty good. Probably won't set your world on fire, but for anyone else who was after them just to have them, because they're pretty cool wee songs, then, there they are. Plop them on your iPod.

For a taster, here's the video for Les Cailloux:

Of course there's tons and tons of other Gondry / Oui Oui stuff on YouTube. That DVD is a killer though, compared to the other Directors, he really put in the work. Loads of cool little animations, models and sketches and stuff.

Here is some stuff that I've been liking recently. It's all been discovered at times when I should have been working, interacting with other people, exercising, answering the phone, tidying up, running errands or sleeping:

1. Matthew Lyons
I found out about Matthew Lyons on the art and design blog Kitsune Noir. Who doesn't love a bit of 50s / retro-future / James Bond / Jetsons style stuff? Yeah, that's right, nobody. Matthew Lyons' work combines precision and expression in a way that'll make you jealous. I've been using the above image as my current desktop background.

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2. Lego Cl!ck
Lego are doing really good things these days. They've really got it together. I also saw this awesome (and quite inspiring) little stop-motion film posted on Kitsune Noir a while back (I probably should have just included KN in the top 5) and just re-watched it this morning. Plastic fantastic!

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3. Buildings by Ligia
While browsing around, I was quite taken by a few of Ligia's Little Red Riding Hood illustrations. You get a really nice sense of cold, clear winter air in them. The buildings in the town are brilliantly handled too.

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4. Chilli Heatwave Doritos
To anyone I've not seen in a while, please be warned: I'm now a fat man. I'm a big fat man with a big fat arse and orangey powder all over my fingers. They sell these silly crisps in ENORMOUS BLOODY BAGS!

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5. Maturation by Achewood
If you're not down with Achewood, you ain't worth spit in my book. This page from last month is a perfect summation of what it's like being a paranoid man growing older.

If there’s one thing I did in 2009 it was go places, probably because my fiancée, Alex, can’t sit on her arse for more than 5 minutes. Last year, I must've been on at least 100 open top buses and 20 merry-go-rounds. The places we went were often small, cold and wet, but boy did we go there anyway. Here are my top travel bits and pieces:

1. Philadelphia
Philly is fun. I’ve been a bunch of times now and I’ve not spent one second it the city that wasn’t completely and utterly brilliant. Everywhere you look, there’s something to see that makes everything back home seem really, really, really soul-crushingly boring. It’s tricky to sum the place up properly, but a few of my favourite things to do in Philadelphia are:

Reading Terminal Market:
A huge and hectic indoor market crammed full with stalls selling wonderful food, from Chinese soups to Amish ice cream. You could eat here every day of the year and never get bored. I got hooked on raspberry lemonade.

North Bowl:
This place has everything you’d ever want from a 10-pin bowling alley. Black and white photobooths, waitresses bringing you beer and chips, high-heeled bowling shoes and a mezzanine with pool tables and vintage arcade games. Fun as hell.

Mutter Museum:
Not really for everyone, the Mutter Museum holds a collection of medical oddities (siamese twins, giant tumours, miscellaneous body parts in jars) that’s fascinating but, at the same time, a bit horribe. Despite it’s ‘freak show’ line-up, it’s all presented fairly straight. It’s kinda like the museum of childhood.

Love Park:
As a bit of a skate-nerd, I knew Love Park pretty well before I even set foot in the city. It was regarded as being one of the most important street spots in the world, until they went and banned skateboarding. On holiday, this meant a whole lot of measuring ledges against my knee.

Get engaged:
If you’re in Philadelphia with someone you love, pop them a question! Have a think about it first because they might say no. I guess that would put a real downer on things. I got lucky though.

We also had a few excursions further afield. We spent a few days in a little place called New York, which was pretty cool (it is very tall). We rode the rollercoasters at Hershey Park and drove to Ocean City in New Jersey for some seaside Americana. Our whole trip would have been completely impossible without our friend Concetta, so big love to her. Going on such an elaborate no-holds-barred adventure did however mean that the rest of our many trips had to err on the side of tiny.

2. Arran
Alex has family on Arran so we were back and forth like crazy. Every time I visit, it’s like stepping into an idyllic childhood world; we hunted eggs in Alex’s grandparent’s magical garden, met the smartest dog in the world, picked shells on the beach, crossed rivers on stepping stones, saw dolphins in the sea and lived in a house with a big painting of Mother Goose on the side.

3. Bristol
I hardly knew a thing about Bristol before we went, I can’t even remember why we decided to go. I kept thinking we were off to Brighton. What a silly man, Bristol is fantastic. It’s a really nice city. There’s lots going on so we spent most of our time just wandering around, discovering things. We managed to catch the big Banksy show and also a little Stanley Donwood show. I visited Here, where I’d had some work up in July 08 and I got to muck about at Lloyds, which Alex loved.

4. Anstruther
Thanks to my longtime love of the Fence Collective, Anstruther and its neighboring East Neuk villages have been a regular destination for years now. In April, a bunch of us headed up to catch Homegame 6. The music was fantastic as always, Alasdair Roberts, Found and the aforementioned Jonnie Common were highlights alongside the collective founders, King Creosote and The Pictish Trail. However, with the Homegame, the gigs are only a part of the trip, wandering around, fish suppers, icecream, pubs and playing Monopoly are just as important.

5. Oban
We got bored of being a young couple so we tried our hand at being an old one and headed off to Oban. Apart from a brief visit to Balamory, where I managed to drop my cone, we barely did a thing. Well, that’s not quite fair, it was a really nice few days. Mull is beautiful, Oban has some amazing little shops to explore and they’ve still got a Pancake Place for God’s sake! It’s also busier than New York.

I’ve been listening to more and more spoken-word things. Here are my favourite non-musical noises from 2009:

1. Adam & Joe
Taken from their 6Music radio show, the Adam & Joe Podcast has been the most consistently hilarious, brilliant, and charming treat for your ears over the past few years. Considering it’s not even their proper job, the effort Buxton and Cornish put into their show, from re-editing film dialogue to writing their own jingles, should make other ‘humorous’ presenters hang their heads in shame.

Adam and Joe make me happy. When I was at school, I can remember taping every single episode of their Channel 4 programme religiously. They walk that smart/stupid, rubbish/brilliant divide better than almost anyone and should be up alongside Vic Reeves in some weird chapter in the history book of British comedy. If you don’t like them, there’s a good chance you’re an arsehole. Sorry.

The one bummer is that their show has just gone off-air. I suspect it’s because of Joe’s increasingly amazing Hollywood career (he’s co-wrote Speilberg’s new CG spectacular, Tintin for God’s sake). They have promised to return later in the year though, so keep your eyes out for that.

2. Jon Ronson On...
A while back, journalist, author, broadcaster and conspiracy theory debunker, Jon Ronson made 4 series’ worth of weird and wonderful radio programmes for the BBC. At the end of last year I stumbled on an online archive someone had put together of said material, plus a few extras. I quickly bundled it all onto my iPod and worked my way through it.

What a find! Fascinating, strange and funny little shows about the peculiar ways the human mind goes haywire. If you decide to give these a listen; take your time! You’ll work your way through the lot quicker than you’d like.

3. Mark Kermode’s Film Reviews
Kermode and his co-host, Simon Mayo, are in a particularly weird category of people who I don’t like much on the telly, but really like on the radio. This extract from Mayo’s BBC Radio 5 Live show is a weekly round up of new cinema releases, both multiplex blockbuster and arthouse chinscratcher.

It’s become a bit of running joke that I can’t have an opinion on a film until I’ve heard what 'my friend' Mark Kermode thinks about it. While that’s not entirely true, I do really trust his judgment and, more importantly, think he’s the most honest critic out there. Dr K will frequently go against his curmudgeonly reputation and admit happily weeping his way through High School Musical 3 or yawning his way through Burn After Reading, and I believe him.

It’s worth a listen for anyone with even a passing interest in cinema, whether you agree with Kermode’s opinions or not. He’s a big horror nerd too, which is always a winner in my book.

4. SModcast
This one divides people, but I’ll admit I’m a fan. Presented by director Kevin Smith and his friend, the producer Scott Mosier, this is a sweary, dirty and silly podcast about nothing in particular.

Kevin Smith’s films I can take or leave, but man, I’ll listen to him spout drivel for hours. SModcast sounds like 2 grown friends meeting up and talking like they’re 16 again, all fart jokes and touching boobs. I can get behind that. For me, Mosier is the real star; a quiet, likeable dude who’ll occasionally send Smith into crying fits with a deadpan comment. Hunt out the Harry Potter one (episode 29) for some good giggling.

5. BBC Radio 4
Considering 3 of the previous 4 entries on my list have been from the BBC, it’s only right I include the big daddy on the list. Radio 4 has more engaging content in a single day than most other stations can muster up in a month. It’s the best.

Personal favourites are: Thinking Allowed (debate and discussion), Digital Planet (technology news), Desert Island Discs ( interviews), More or Less (a show about numbers!) and Medical Matters (medical/healthcare discussion).

The nice folks at Epilogue asked if they could feature my work this week and I said yes. Visit their site and have a look around, it's very nice: epiloguemagazine.com

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