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Tag Archives: Radio 4
Debbie Harry impersonator stars at isolated Yorkshire guest house (Rousse)
The isolated guest house on the North Yorkshire moors was well-known for its strict graduate-only entry policy. I travelled there by car with Belle and a stranger. We couldn’t compete with his credentials as a UCL-based Jane Austen expert with … Continue reading
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Tagged baking, BBC, bicycle, bicyles, bike, bikes, Blondie, clerk, clerks, cycle, cycling, Debbie, Debbie Harry, Deborah, degree, disco, discos, explicit, Front Row, graduate, graduates, guest house, Harry, isolation, Jane Austen, London, lyrics, mobile, mobile phone, Moors, North Yorks, North Yorkshire, pastry, phone, radio, Radio 4, Scrabble, Stockton, Stockton-on-Tees, TPR, UCL, University College London, weather
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London university appoints controversial vice chancellor, conference acrobatics, and a flood (Rousse)
Emerging from my slumbers to a soundtrack of the Radio 4 Today programme I was very surprised to hear mention of an external colleague’s name. The big news was that DW had been appointed vice chancellor of one of the … Continue reading
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Tagged acrobatics, acrobats, auditorium, bath, bathroom, conference, dance, dancing, delegates, flood, friend, harnesses, job, London, naked, Radio 4, screen, sleep, stage, Today, TPR, university, Vice Chancellor, water
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Fish and lamb (Rousse)
P and SM had secretly amassed a vast collection of enormous glug jugs, now displayed with pride in their sitting room. Some hung from from hooks, and the rest were arranged higgledy piggledy on a high shelf. I particularly admired … Continue reading
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Tagged accident, Archers, baby, bottle, car, ceiling, Coke, death, die, driving, fossil, fossils, glug jug, glug jugs, Hexham, hook, hooks, jigsaw, jigsaws, lamb, lambing, mallet, meal, Orkney, parents, Radio 4, rug, salmon, sheep, shelf, shop, shop assistant, sitting room, the Archers, toys, TPR, visitor centre, Yorkshire
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Radio 4 tested as a barometer of social class (Rousse)
Identifying suitable time-slots to see each of my PhD students was already a problem, and now finding a physical space in which to meet was a further challenge. RI and I settled down to chat in a corner of a … Continue reading
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Tagged class, classroom, PhD, professor, questionnaire, Radio 4, research, research centre, security, seminar, social class, student, students, survey, teaching, tutorial, undergraduates
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Weebles wobble – and so does Rousse
I was so well-practised at office moves that I soon organised the contents of my desk drawers, cabinet and bookshelves into neat piles: pens, notepads, paperclips, drawing pins, bath tub toys and Weebles (both commercially produced and ping pong ball … Continue reading
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Tagged 1980s, bookshelves, cabinet, charity, desk, Disney, drawers, drawing pins, dresses, ducks, Dundee University, family, office, office move, paperclips, pens, ping pong balls, radio, Radio 4, sister, toiletries, toys, Victorian, vintage clothing, Weebles, weight
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The British Library, Radio 4, and small furry pests (Rousse)
MJ proudly touted his secret weapon to eradicate the British Library’s rodent problem: a super-mouse to chase all others out of the building. I was surprised that legitimate cross-charged services at the library included pest control. Meanwhile my new Italian … Continue reading
Rousse misses Clive Anderson – just
It was an amazing coincidence to see Clive Anderson twice in one day. I’d spotted him at the London BBC Radio 4 studio in the morning, and now he was here in Edinburgh checking into reception. I hesitated over approaching … Continue reading
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Tagged airport, BBC, car, Clive Anderson, Dawn French, driving, Edinburgh, Isle of Lewis, London, motorway, parents, Radio 4, sister
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