At the beginning of my career I spent several days doing research at the old physical newspaper library in Colindale, which is where anyone from anywhere in the world would have to travel to if they wanted to access the archive. The equivalant cost of getting there, even from central London, was...
I'd be interested to know who you think should pay for the digitisation of the 60 million newspapers in the (really quite remarkable) British Library collection. Only 20 million are currently digitised so there's a long way to go yet.
Also, if you were in this country you'd be able to access...
I used to get so little done in the office, but I do miss the endless tea breaks and chatter that stopped me from working. Now it's just me and the cat, and the cat can't tell me what he thought of last night's TV even though he watched it with me.
My festival highlight of last summer was Cory Hanson guitar duetting with his brother a few weeks after this was recorded:
Will be checking this one out.
I've just seen Michael Owen and Andrei Kanchelskis leaving the Little Chef at Hickstead in a Bucci Special. Not sure who was driving but the registration number was CA11 ERI.
Until my most recent visit I would have agreed, but in May the portions had shrunk and I left still hungry (a first for this place). Maybe I should try again in the hope it was an off day rather than the ubiquitous shrinkflation.
More than 1 in 5 of the UK population were watching the show as it went out in 1984, so it was a huge cultural moment. I doubt there are many Brits over 45 years old that aren't aware of him or how he died.