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Interesting interview with Bellowhead, on the revival in folk music (not to be confused with the folk revival) - and Vaughan-Williams.

Also, there is Psmith on R4, or rather on Listen Again. Am using the prospect of this as a bribe to get me to pluck up my courage and read through my conference paper.

Another of those quotation memes, rephrased because I am a pedant

Quote from LotR when you read this

"It is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succour of those years wherein we are set, uprooting the evil in the fields we know, so that those who live after may have clean earth to till. What weather they shall have is not ours to rule."

Gandalf, at the Council of Elrond.

And, of course:

All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king.

A verse which I find almost embarassingly moving, but in an encouraging sort of way.

On a related subject: I have just realised that I am coming back from the conference a day earlier than I thought (boo). I know booking has closed for Oxenmoot, but does anyone know if it possible to go as a 'day vistor' to some or all of it?