STATION IDENT: Happy New Year

Happy new year. May this one be kinder, funnier and more interesting than the last.

Photo by my good friend Brian Wood, who's away with his family tonight. My family's asleep, and I'm sitting here with whisky in the glass and Michael Cashmore's SLEEP ENGLAND on the speakers, brushing the last traces of a brief snow flurry off my shaven head, and thinking about the future. Annual tradition, maybe, or perhaps just something coded into my bones. It's the only way I know to break the new year...