This programme on the BBC World Service is worth a listen, today’s ‘The Word’ came from Edinburgh and followed Ian Rankin for a bit around the city streets (always thought that’d make a nice podcast, he could do it himself) during the “International” Book Festival. Very enjoyable. They interviewed the organiser of the festival who gave a startling figure of 2% as the percentage of newly published translated books available (or purchased?) in the UK. Our tastes are apparently “very parochial”.
Anyway here’s a direct link to that programme. Enjoy.
can’t say why… but i love this site: http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/. Archived photos from American naval deployments etc. i’ve come back to it many times since I discovered it 5 years or so ago, I suppose I like ships, engineering, black and white photography and archives. but i keep loosing it, so I’ll post it here… best way to navigate this site is via the ’site:#’ google images: here.
some great shots of old New York (1930’s) in there, a particular one of Brooklyn Bridge which uncannily mirrors BlueJake’s latest post. I’ll go find it now.
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