Patti on the Radio
Patti Smith’s memoir of life in New York in the 1960’s and 70’s is book of the week on radio 4 this week;
Episode 1 goes out on Monday, 1st of March, at 9.45am. Further info HERE.
I wrote a few words on the book for the Heavenly blog last week. read it HERE.
Competition.
Grace Maxwell is the partner of songwriter/musician, Edwyn Collins. Together they have a teenage son, William. In February 2005 Edwyn suffered two brain hemorrhages. He then went on to contract the MRSA bug whilst recovering in hospital. He was lucky to survive but everything changed.
This is the story of them rebuilding their lives. It is [...]
Pint by the River – St Peter’s India Pale Ale
26 February 2010 // Pint by the River
Last year, Jeff, Andrew and myself sat out on the back stoop of the Dove doing our usual thing – drinking a few pints of foaming nut brown ale while concocting plans of what we could or should attempt next. We’ve always liked talking about beer. Liked drinking it a bit more than that if [...]
Birdsongs 2 track list
25 February 2010 // Miscellany
just in case you couldn’t download the cover;
A Year of Fishing Volume 1.
25 February 2010 // Caught By...
Winter Pike featuring Fred J Taylor and Richard Walker
Listen to it as a CBTR podcast or download free from our itunes page.
Review by John Andrews.
until the last surviving thames professional roger wyndham-barnes untied his punt at shiplake and took anglers downstream to his favourite weirpool, the best thing to have come out of the [...]
Pike Drama
24 February 2010 // Caught By...
Nick Small chanced upon this amazing photo on Flickr at the weekend. The drama of it blew us away so we got in touch with the guy and this is what he told us;
….All this happen last monday..We are fishermen first and we have great access to beautifull scotland ..I take friends out fishing nearly [...]
Country Bizarre, Issue 5
24 February 2010 // Country Bizarre
Country Bizarre, Issue 5. Click HERE to view and download.
Click HERE for the story.
Letter From Arcadia
Snowfalls.
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whilst you are surrounded by snowdrops here it is only snowfalls as the ice age of arcadia takes hold, threateningly for good. the ponds are ice soup and the riverbank has gone, washed away by one cold brown onslaught. the heath is more glass than grass, more water than walks. arcadia is [...]
Birdsongs 2
The second in our series of ornithologically themed music downloads will go out to our members on Wednesday the 24th. This time the tracks have been selected by Jimi Goodwin from the aptly named Doves. Once again the artwork has been done by Matt Sewell and features Jimi’s songbird of choice, the robin.
And as an [...]
Chris Watson – A Journey South
21 February 2010 // Miscellany
Photos by Chris Watson & Jason Roberts. McMurdo Sound, Cape Evans, Ross Island (approx 78º S).
Chris Watson reports on a recent trip he made to the South Pole, in the company of David Attenborough, over at Touch Radio.
More Chris on CBTR tomorrow when, in conjunction with Heavenly Recordings, we will be making his remix of [...]
Caught by the River