radio 4 and the shipping forecast
after a short piece on NPR I got nostalgic for the shipping forecast on bbc radio 4, which used to be a fixture in my late night listening. Of course, all this stuff is online: BBC - Radio 4 - Shipping Forecast for a Real Audio stream.

Rural Panoramas - Walking Britain
Some nice photos of home 1.0

a banana is not an easy thing
This is a banana-skin art project by Shelley Sacks- a "social sculpture" that took banana grower numbers and traced some of the individual farmers in St. Lucia who grew them. The exhibition featured large sheets of cured, sewn banana skin, but the whole project took place in a much larger context, addressing consumer responsibility and the impact of multinational agribusiness, as well as some more immediate issues for the growers. This is fascinating stuff.