Radio 2 DJs Mark Radcliffe and Stuart McConie are to walk the Jurassic Coast path this coming week, possibly with a little artistic license. Good for them, hope they enjoy it. Guests include Dorste's adopted son Billy Bragg in Lyme Regis on Monday evening and Topsham's own Show of Hands in Beer on Tuesday.
The week's other shows are from Sidmouth on Wednesday and Exmouth on Thurs.
Wednesday's guests include Squeeze, who were obviously not put off by their first visit to the west country in 1979, when they performed a storming set in Barnstaple despite having been made unwell by the fare on offer at a cafe owned by a local councillor.
The recordings are unfortunately not open to the public, but we hope the spies will bump into them at times that are not necessarily stage managed, to greet them and in order to verify their efforts. And with all due respect to the very talented artists, some local, that they feature, to tell them that if they looked harder they might be able to feature someone who hasn't reached his or her fiftieth birthday!
By strange coincidence this weekend the Guardian magazine carries features on Budleigh (Lets Move To...) and on the Fish Shack at Dart's Farm. It seems the liberal intelligentsia are moving down here almost as fast as McCarthy and Stone.
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