I love Radio 7 but we’re so spoiled for choice at the moment with all the great books that are on the go there. It such a damn shame that there are blocks on the BBC iplayer which mean that people outside the U.K. can’t listen in.

The banned season has just started and they are having dramatizations and readings of:

Lady Chatterley’s Lover
Madame Bovary
Animal Farm
Fahrenheit 451
A Clockwork Orange
Brave New World

But the one that I really have to get around to listening to on the iplayer isn’t part of the banned season at all. It’s vintage crime – The Murder of the Maharajah by H.R.F. Keating. I haven’t read it and it’ll be interesting to see what it’s like.

There’s scary stuff scheduled for around Hallowe’en too. The Turn of the Screw, Frankenstein and Sherlock Holmes versus Dracula.

On a more personal note, the builder has finally finished all the work and we’re pleased with the results, now I just have to sort out my devastated garden before the ground freezes up.

We were stuck in the house the whole first week of the school holidays, but today we managed to have a lovely day out in Edinburgh. All going well, my post tomorrow should have some nice photographs of the Water of Leith, the castle and Rose Street.