Nick Wadham-Smith

Retired citizen of Walthamstow (and The World). Round year swimming, cycling, reading and R3. Journal of choice: The Listener, when you can get it.

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Today makes it 21 plays of Respighi in last 30 days @BBCRadio3

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@BBCRadio3 that was the 20th time a work by Respighi was played in the last 30 days.

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Hi Georgia, really enjoying the 25 for 25 but listening again on Sounds is difficult. They are expiring. Will there eventually be a box set? @MannGeorgia @BBCRadio3

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Hi @BBCRadio3 . I'm worried that the 25 for 25 commissions will expire on Sounds before I get a chance to hear them again. Will we have a box set?

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Chances are someone in Wentworth Road Golders Green was listening to @NicolaiMedtner on @BBCRadio3 just now. Were you? He lived there @PetrocTrelawny told us. Fabulous piano quintet bursting with colour.

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My personal criterion for the continued quality of @BBCFreeThinking when it moves to @BBCRadio4 is whether @ShahidhaBari chooses to work with it. Wait and see...

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@thea_lenarduzzi #histortion? And the rest is Historiography...

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@dieworkwear I'm wondering whether #Mastodon doesn't come close to what you envisage. It's out there quietly chomping away.

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@bungatuffie Interesting to note the chair of that GLC Police Committee so feared by the MET in their report: Paul Boateng

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@London_Cycling Thanks. Route now public at https://t.co/thUZZn35cw

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@London_Cycling in the latest magazine, the gpx link in your excellent Herts route is showing as "private" when you follow it to Komoot. Can you make it public, please.

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@MannGeorgia Sellotape! I believe BBC guidelines are sticky-backed plastic? Welcome back.

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@Jon_Cruddas Unbelievably prescient review in 2012 of Britannia Unchained and the cyclonic path of neo-liberalism through Toryism. Perhaps you do racing tips..? https://t.co/ZlfcDIluQY

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Hi @VodafoneUK, trying to access your page to buy broadband. Says it is down and refers me to homepage. How long will https://t.co/QcLRZJs4St be down?

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@EtheHerring #Radiohead day on @BBC6Music today and this docu on #bbcradio4 https://t.co/41c39RDVsc

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Thanks @AnnetteKuhn7 for heads up on British Academy talk https://t.co/6IxD198Pba. Gone are the days when I could walk round the corner from work; so it will be YouTube.

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Renewed etymological interest in the origins of complex words has raised questions about how frequently words may show convergent lines of development. Join us at our free lecture examining how these issues impact the historical dictionary. https://t.co/ojGueLEpxy

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Good morning @JohnBridcut. Your Winterreise was to be our Xmas highlight on BBC. Will it be rescheduled?

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Hi @KLPA1985 My wife, Gabi left her tinted prescription goggles on the bench in the shower room today (Fri) . Is there anyone who could help?

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@alicehicklin idea: if you want to preserve paragraph breaks search for ^p ^p and replace with a non-alphabetic character first. Then zap the ^p's and replace the runic chars with ^p. Monty would have loved the this hack, eh @jmainpidd

[Dr Alice Hicklin @alicehicklin]

If you spend a lot of time copying text from PDFs into Word like me, I hope this tip might be useful! If the PDF ends up broken up over lots of lines, there's no need to fix it manually. Just go to find and replace, type ^p into find, and one space into replace. Pics below :)

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@WestReservoir I wonder if you're allowed two silicon caps. I find that makes a world of difference (red West Res one on top of course)