David Crystal live and in person

Thang you kindly, mam! Yes, Crystal is indeed a multi-faceted and brilliant live showman. If you follow the link from the first one offered above, to go to the Hay festival site, you can actually play his talk (and quite a few of the others too) tho' it lacks the sparkling and comic presentation of his full schtick. And yes, tho' Hay in many years might well be like a cross between Milkwood and Underwater, this year it was glorious sunshine - ask Jackie how much rain she's seen on her travels :)

Which reminds me J, what (apart from no mushrooms!) do you want for breakfast? hehhehheh

My maximal apologies are extended to those I was forced to rapidly curtail communications with around a year ago - fwiw it has cost me more than you can know, but had to be done at the time. Please forgive my rudeness.