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BBC: The Unkindest Cuts
According to a protest letter signed by 37 producers of shows such as Desert Island Discs and Midweek, a quarter of all Radio 4 producers are due to be axed in the upcoming BBC cutbacks. I’m sorry, but this makes me want to weep. Not because I’m a member of the English middle-class conspiracy to [...]
Pornography sucks.
There I was, flipping idly through the channels of my hotel TV, past the American sitcoms, past the shopping channels, and suddenly I’m in a netherworld of horrible plastic bumping and humping. The XXX channels. Look, I’m a writer. I’m not going to shriek and flip the TV off instantly. So I watched for as [...]
A Writer’s Day.
6:30am Alarm. Affect responsible motherly tone and call to see if child is up. She has already showered, dressed, made her own breakfast and straightened her hair. Set alarm clock on doze. 7:30 Coffee, emails, facebook, shower. Retrieve yesterday’s clothes from chair. 8.00 Walk dogs. Intend to think about plot of latest book but send [...]
Eck! Eck! Eck!
Here he is, the very first prototype Eck. I may be prejudiced, but I think he is the most delightful creature in nine thousand galaxies. He is nearly 7 inches tall and comes in a (very) limited edition. The one pictured here is Number 1, and I’m afraid he is mine, but each subsequent Eck [...]
There will soon be an Eck.
I would like to state from the outset that writers are serious people who do not hang around phoning up their friends in Brooklyn and asking them to design small versions of imaginary near-extinct animals. Having established that, I’m quite excited to reveal the early production stages of an actual genuine real live stuffed Eck. His [...]
Burn the witch.
So I’ve been called blasphemous. More than once. Moi? I know. Hard to imagine, isn’t it? But there are a lot of Christian schools in the UK and some of them seem to think that repositioning God as a sex-mad teenager is wrong. The thing is, as a lifelong atheist, the book I meant to [...]
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