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belatedly, but I've been away from the keyboard, I have to mention - nay, shout it to the world although I'm about the 777th person to do so - Tom Beckett's wonderful new blog E-X-C-H-A-N-G-E-V-A-L-U-E-S, an interview site with the first interviewee the equally wonderful Crag Hill.

Jonathan Mayhew describes Tom as "one of the best interviewers of his generation". I would take issue with that, would delete the "his" & substitute "any".

This is going to be a must-visit site.