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I Don't Particularly Like Going On About Being Gay Or Making A Big Thing About It, But I Think It's A Bit Of A Pain To Be Secretive About It.

Art Can Help A Town By Attracting A Certain Bohemian Population That Adds Life To The Bars, Character To The Streets And A Buzz To The Name. Employers May Then Follow. But Art Can't Do Much If Every Town Does It. There Aren't Enough Bohemians.

Phyllis Is One Of The Tunnel Boring Machines For Crossrail And One Of The Most Extraordinary Characters I Met, Visiting Some Of The Most Exciting Infrastructure In Britain. Crossrail Is The New Railway Which Will Run From West To East Right Across London. It Is The Biggest Engineering Project In Europe - And Phyllis Herself Is Not Exactly Dainty.

What Is So Striking About Liberia Is That In A Place Where There Is So Much To Be Done, I Have Never Seen So Many People With Nothing To Do.

Now I Can Broadcast To An Audience Of Several Million People On The 'today' Programme. I Can Talk About The Day's News. But On Radio, Believe It Or Not, We Have Notes And Scripts. And While We Might Ad Lib The Odd Wryly Amusing Asides, They Come At The Frequency Of A Suburban Bus. About One Every 90 Minutes.