"I try to be upstairs and painting before Radio 4’s Today Programme finishes. Everyone else by now has left the Ìýquietened house and the radio acts not so much as a clock Ìýbut as a sundial or pendulum, giving rhythm to my working day beneath the studio’s glass-roofed dormer. Book of the ÌýWeek rarely disappoints and lunch and World at One can be made to coincide. The variety of programmes between three and five pm accompany the headlong rush that develops as work accelerates towards evening, remembering that any major decisions were for the morning long ago."
