Interesting footage and useful (if pre-rehearsed) maxims from Brad Holland, who was kind enough to invite me to his Soho studio in 1999 when I was in New York with college (I mostly recall the small Rembrandt etching he had on his wall, a painting of a...

Look, if you can, at this BBC documentary about wonderful, curmudgeonly, wonderful David Hockney's recent work. The narrator is astoundingly insensitive, Damian Hurst is non-commital and a bit irritating, Hockney is a wonder! http://bbc.co.uk/i/lk119/

Matthew Robins and me, just two cogs in an 851 spoked, world record breaking wheel. It was 851 voices that got me, more than all the strumming... *Oh come on... that had to be the title.

Here is a scrawl of yesterday's big stormcloud before it hit London, as viewed from the train through Warwickshire. I take that train pretty much once a week currently, to the tv studio, and it's a really beautiful journey, complete with horizons...