No Good Boyo subscribes to what he claimed is a journal of Attic Greek research called Radiotimes, but turns out to be a tele-vision and wireless listings magazine.
I leafed through it the other day in apprehension of finding out what British people watch other than the ritual humiliation of rural simpletons - a form of entertainment that Ukrainians prefer to enjoy live.
I found this:
Hay-on-Sky
7.00pm Sky Arts ARTS
Bill Clinton dubbed it "the Woodstock of the mind", and the annual literary festival in the small town of Hay-on-Wye attracts a much wider field that just London literati.
The likes of Sandi Toksvig, Simon Schama, Sophie Dahl, Rick Wakeman, Heston Blumenthal, Marcus Brigstock and Sting will all be there this year.
Many of them will make it along to Sky Arts's temporary studio for a chat with Mariella Frostrup and she'll also have daily reports on events through to the end of May.
Sting is revered as a demiurge by the mountainfolk of Tyahnybok District in the High Carpathians because of his physical and vocal resemblence to Yeldasys, an hermaphrodite wood sprite, but these others are unfamiliar to me.
I feel a little ashamed to have underestimated the intellectual balast that weighs down the barque of British public life, and shall apply myself during this confinement to studying the works of Brigstock, Wakeman et alia.
Any recommendations for a point of departure into this sea of knowledge would be welcome.
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The work of mercurial conjuror Paul Daniels?
A neighbour of ours, I fear.
And no, I don't know the truth about the rumours.
Here is Brigstocke applying his intellect to the question of North Korea's nuclear ambition:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huqgoTUurec
I've played gigs with both Brigstocke and Rick Wakeman. Do I win a prize?
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