From standup to stanzas: Frank Skinner's terrific guide to poetry 🔗
>Now embarking on its second series, the podcast is a terrific listen: bursting with enthusiasm for its chosen poems and constantly amusing about Skinner’s relationship with them.
Month: October 2020
Posted on October 4, 2020
Aston Villa – Liverpool finishes 7-2. Outstanding night for Villa! ⚽️
Posted on October 4, 2020
Aston Villa v Liverpool. Villa leading 4-1 at half-time! Hat-trick for Ollie Watkins 😃 ⚽️
Posted on October 4, 2020
🎵 My Top weekly artists: Juliette Gréco (80), Michael Kiwanuka (34), Glenn Gould (28), Pet Shimmers (22) & Doves (10) via tweekly.fm
Posted on October 3, 2020
Watched: Hacksaw Ridge, 2016 – ★★½ 🎥
Posted on October 3, 2020
Bread today turned out surprisingly cat-like. Tasted good but not sure what made the loaf collapse. 🍞
Posted on October 3, 2020
How the Indian Premier League clean bowled English T20 cricket 🔗🏏
Two hundred million people watched the IPL season opener in Abu Dhabi … more than the Super Bowl audience and not too far off the Champions League final.
Posted on October 3, 2020
Why Radiohead are the Blackest white band of our times 🔗
Radiohead released Kid A 20 years ago today. It pointed a new direction for rock music – and mirrored radical Black art by imagining new spaces to live in amid a hostile world
Posted on October 3, 2020
Baking won't get me through a Covid winter but a bossy, breathless Melvyn Bragg just might 🔗
In Our Time, I often think, is like going to an amazing free university at the top of Enid Blyton’s Magic Faraway Tree
Posted on October 2, 2020
For my second night of cooking Meera Sodha recipes I’ve gone for vegan chilli cornbread with broccoli. And baked black-eyed beans.
