Multi-Meedja Archive

I've decided to keep an archive of music, radio progs and books that I list in the side bar. And this post shall be it.

MUSIC

• my music for belly dancing round the living room to list at amazon
  
• Hossan Ramzy
  
• Bab El Oued Kingston (Gnawa Diffusion)
  
• Is It Rolling Bob? A Reggae Tribute to Bob Dylan
  
• Best Dressed Chicken In Town (Dr Alimantado)
  
• the Bragg-meister
  
• The Storm (Moving Hearts) - in keeping with prevailing climatic conditions, oh the joys of an English summer
  
• O's Summer Anthems
  
• Made in Medina (Rachid Taha)
  
• several albums by Dick Gaughan
  
• Tekitoi (Rachid Taha)
  
• O's Pop Party
  
• wishing you an irie Christmas and a dancehall New Year with the Trojan Xmas Box Set ~ 50 tracks of seasonal reggae joy. Santa Claus is skaing to town!
  
• Deb (Souad Massi)
  
• Half Man Half Biscuit
  
  

RADIO

• Terry Pratchett's Mort - R4 Tuesdays 11 pm
  
• The Archers - can't get enuff of that Ambridge gossip
  
• The Square Meal
  
• BBC R5Live Olympic Coverage
  
• Coming soon to a planet near you
  Hitchhiker's Guide: The New Episodes
  
• Dermot's Saturday Club (one for Jude)
  
• Mark Lamarr presents The Upsetter - The Life & Works of Lee 'Scratch' Perry Radio 2, Wednesday, 10pm
  
• The News Quiz
  
• John Peel remembered - Front Row Special (R4) and Steve Lamacq's tribute (R1)
  
• BBC R3 World Music Awards
  
• No Fixed Abode, Cricklewood (a history of the goodies)
  

BOOKS

• The Shadow of the Sun: My African Life (Ryszard Kapuscinski)
  
• Brick Lane (Monica Ali)
  
• Toast (Nigel Slater)
  
• Reading "Lolita" in Tehran: A Memoir in Books (Azar Nafisi)
  
• Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar (Simon Sebag-Montefiore) - deferred (finding it too hard going right now)
  
• Sanctum (Denise Mina )
  
• Fat Land (Greg Critser)
  
• Daughter of Fortune (Isabel Allende)
  
• The Wee Free Men (Terry Pratchett)
  
• Pompeii (Robert Harris)
  
• Oryx and Crake (Margaret Atwood)
  
• Monstrous Regiment (Terry Pratchett)
  
• The Distant Echo (Val McDermid)
  
• How Mumbo-Jumbo Conquered the World (Francis Wheen)
  
• From the Holy Mountain (William Dalrymple)
  
• The Calorie, Carb and Fat Bible is my constant companion since I went back to calorie counting. Yawn.
  
• The Black Dahlia(James Ellroy)
  
• 1421: The Year China Discovered the World (Gavin Menzies)
  
• White Mughals(William Dalrymple)
  
• Blacklist (Sara Paretsky)
  
• A Short History of Nearly Everything (Bill Bryson)
  
  
  

updated: 15/02/05