My medium of choice is the radio. I'll be taking BBC Radio 4 to my desert island. I love listening to the sound of voices. I love the way that that the programmes take time to produce (as opposed to talk-radio with streaming vox-pops). I even enjoy the programme where people complain about it not being as good as it used to be.
At the weekend I was driving through stunning countryside on my way to a wedding in a Scottish castle so-oo romantic when I heard John Culshaw (of BBC R4's Dead Ringers) doing his favourite impression of Russell Crowe as Maximus Decimus Meridius - a British actor doing an impression of an Australian playing a Spaniard in a American film set in Ancient Rome directed by a British former BBC employee. It stuck me that even heading deep into rural Britain, the rest of the world was only a twiddle with the tuning away.
