Patrick Wright

Yes indeed. Missed that piece!

Well said. Though wasn’t ’the Yookay’ coined by Raymond Williams? In Towards 2000 if I remember correctly (which I may not)…

Just heard these great Fado musicians at a restaurant in Mouraria, Lisbon. Riccardo Parreira was particularly brilliant on the Portuguese guitar: a descendant, as I was informed outside the gents, of John Dowland’s melancholy English lute.

Congratulations John. Just great to have kept going…. Much looking forward to reading it in due course.

Glad to say that programme was also remembered by Gwyneth Williams who became controller of Radio 4 and asked me for two series of The English Fix in the wake of Brexit. Each prog was about a moment/perspective in which ‘England’ was intensified by perceived encroaching threats. Silence ever since!

Late to see this but I was indeed there for one Gulbenkian performance. Ben Kingsley was brilliant as Gramsci - never better in my recollections of his later roles - and the point of political theatre was very well made - ie that it is never just about line-pushing. Poor University of Kent…

Indeed. I still remember Ben K’ fabulous performance as Gramsci in ‘Occupations’, during its appearance at the Gulbenkian Theatre, University of Kent, 1960