Last Thursday morning, I got called in to the BBC offices in Great Portland Street to record my section of a programme about how tattooing features in fine art - or possibly how fine art features in tattooing. Hosted by the lovely Mary Anne Hobbs for the BBC4 Culture Show, it was damn good fun - I always think radio is a peculiar beast to be involved in. A small part of me suspected that we would all be in a room together but I found myself to be the only one in London that day - everybody else was presumably in the same boat elsewhere. The weird part about it is that as soon as the actual work begins, you forget you're not all in the same room and treat it as if you are. After a few minutes you can even begin to predict body language by the tone of a voice. You get to know when somebody is about to falter and you can fill in a blank or pre-empt where a 'polite' gap will be that you can interrupt. For 50 minutes, I thought that this could be exactly how Matt Murdock operates but Matt Murdock would not have stolen his BBC pass that they asked to be handed back in - and neither would he have taken a picture of a lonely recording booth:

No idea when it airs - I don't think they know yet either but I'll post here when it does. Here's the link to their home page - there's some good stuff on there and it feels good to be in such company. I'll file that one in the 'win' column.

...and if you ever get invited to take part in anything to do with the BBC radio, I suggest that you pick up your own coffee from just a few yards down the street. This cup on the desk is not indicative of what they actually serve - just a happy forethought on my own behalf.