Well, I didn't expect to be woken by the soaring, silvery tones of Alessandro Moreschi this morning. But I was, thanks to a feature on the 'Handel and the Castrati' exhibition which opens tomorrow at Handel's house in London. My normal alarm time of 7:45 woke me perfectly in time to hear Nicholas Clapton, the curator of the exhibition, being ( Read more... )

I've never exactly been bowled over by Sarah Montague as a Today presenter. Placed in a really firey interview situation, she stumbles, can't think on her feet, and often pursues pre-determined lines of questioning blindly, without responding to what's actually going on in front of her. (I'm not saying I could do any better at her job, by the way. ( Read more... )

Lord Tebbit this morning on the Today programme, on the subject of gay marriage (a topic which he had crow-barred into a discussion actually meant to be on obesity):

"We've got a huge problem with AIDS, and the government is doing all it can to promote buggery"I don't quite know what happened after he said this, because I was too busy gawping and ( Read more... )