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I BLAME Kenny Everett. It’s like this. It was school holidays. With nothing better to do I started twiddling the knobs of a vast radio set we had in the kitchen. The sort with Athlone and Normandy and other long forgotten radio stations on the dial. Through the wheeze and screech, I bypassed Edmundo Ros’s Rumba Band and the Obernkirchen Children’s Choir ‘a-happy wandering,’ and came to an abrupt halt when Ken and Radio London, burst though the speakers. What I was listening to was like nothing I’d heard before. It wasn’t as if I was new to radio. The Archers were old friends and Kenneth Horne had always managed to brighten up a Sunday afternoon for me with a raft of cutlery and plates, waiting to be washed up. This was different though. This was inspired lunacy, as Everett ran through his trademark voices and surreal characters. Then there was the music. I didn’t know what a ‘Little Deuce Coupe’ was, but I knew I wanted one. I also had the feeling the Beac
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The subterranean rivers of London are the tributaries of the River Thames that were built during the growth of the famous city. They flow through underground culverts, with a number of them now integral parts of London s sewage system. The River Fleet is the largest of these, its headwaters are two streams on Hampstead Heath, each of which were dammed into a series of ponds in the 18th century.
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I am telling Geoff Parling about the recent floods in the Neath Valley in Wales.
Floodwaters have erupted from the old, abandoned mineshafts. They have cracked the surfaces of busy town centre roads and formed small tidal waves, swelling and surging in little whitecaps down the streets of the village of Skewen.
I can hear the incredulity in Geoff Parling’s response. He is surrounded by a background chorus of finches, whistlers and honeyeaters in the balmy 17 degrees of early morning Melbourne. It is a world apart. Not much hint there, of the catalogue of Old Testament plagues in the UK.
A man for all seasons in Melbourne: Geoff Parling A Set the default text size A Set large text size
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I am telling Geoff Parling about the recent floods in the Neath Valley in Wales.
Floodwaters have erupted from the old, abandoned mineshafts. They have cracked the surfaces of busy town centre roads and formed small tidal waves, swelling and surging in little whitecaps down the streets of the village of Skewen.
I can hear the incredulity in Geoff Parling’s response. He is surrounded by a background chorus of finches, whistlers and honeyeaters in the balmy 17 degrees of early morning Melbourne. It is a world apart. Not much hint there, of the catalogue of Old Testament plagues in the UK.