Ìý"My symbiotic relationship with radio 4 is not obvious in my work, but for years it has selflessly entertained the side of my brain left twiddling its thumbs during endless hours of confinement in the studio. I absorb the array of Ìýextraordinary facts and opinions paraded before me. Lucky Ìýthing too, as isolation certainly blunts your social skills and I can pepper my conversation with pertinent and topical issues straight off the radio. Radio 4 has been the audible Ìýbackdrop to my whole life, absent only when I lived abroad and there was no internet. A few hours of the World Service constantly interrupted by South American stations was a very poor substitute."
