The What have to you been up to that the man in the street can relate to?

Or the woman.

I do have to do a talk last night and actually had to give the Christopher Rick's lecture

at King Alfred's Academy in Wantage.

So it's a bit of an honor to do it and I, to be honest, I basically just did a 50 minutes is quite a long time to speak.

I mean, I can tell you it's nearly 6,000 words of a printed out lecture.

How do you read them 6,000 words?

I had written 6,000 words? I had students interview me.

But I basically just did my, the books that made me, that classic thing.

So starting with Great Northern by Arthur Ransom, which is the first book I remember choosing in a library

and taking home and reading, because I was nuts about birds.

And it was the last of the Swallers in Amazon, but a good place to start.

And then there's quite a bit about Willow Catha and I read a bit of Sarah Hall

and I was basically putting a five proposition

and why reading is an important thing, you know, the kind of thing you do all the time.

Why we should read books?

Well you should read books,

concentrate, finish them, all the Puritan stuff.

And did you use the opportunity?

And I finished with a great thing about ambiguity and Dickens and he that

Christopher Ricks was the person who introduced to me the shocking fact that

great expectations had an original ending which is so much better than the one that most people

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