Breakfast, diabetes research, and the right to make bad jokes
'The Today Programme will survive John Humphrys leaving but will we all survive the death of the right to make poor jokes?'
Bravo Budapest…
Friday afternoon and time for some great music. Next Tuesday's Prom features one of my very favourite orchestras, the Budapest Festival Orchestra under its superconductor Ivan Fischer.
Brave New Worlds?
Fascinating piece in The New Yorker by the super Alex Ross about the processes of digitally restoring old recordings, and the sheer mindboggling availability of different formats in the marketplace today, thanks
Minotaurs, Muses and modernity
Classical scholarship for love, not money, leads to some liberating interpretations