Music Group

Even though, scandalously, I am not listed anywhere, I am the secret guest on Phil Hammond's The Music Group on Radio 4 this lunchtime, 1.30pm - recorded on Friday in Brighton. (This is what happens when you're a late booking. I'm not proud. In fact, I'm still enormously flattered to be asked onto this type of show.) Just in case you're by a radio, I can say that it was a very jolly programme to be on with Polly Toynbee and Zoe Ball, and to play The Cure's One Hundred Years to a theatreful of Radio 4 listeners was a serious milestone for my broadcasting career. (You can always Listen Again.) As you were.

Blog etc.

I have a new blog about portrayals of "the Troubles" on TV on the Guardian website today (ha ha, they won't let me write for the newspaper, but there I am at the tradesmen's entrance, sniffing the rarefied air inside), and I'm on Richard Bacon's Five Live show between 11pm and 12.30 tonight. As you were.