Things I wish I’d said on @BacklistedPod – a backlist.

(@i_am_mill_i_am and @birchos – can’t tag you in photos.) 1. Sondheim was absurdly generous with his time. He talked about everything in as much detail as was asked. When the Library of Congress wanted to go line-by-line deep, he did. The interview is SIX AND A HALF HOURS LONG.

There is, not far from Clapham South station, a thing I've seen nowhere else. It's this. (1/6) It's a wall, next to a three-storey house, on the grounds of a rather grand Victorian villa which is now a school. (2/6)

Prompted by something Dan ‘No Such Thing As A’ Schreiber said on some twenty-hour Comic Relief podcast marathon or other, I dived into a bit of research about Holst’s masterpiece, The Planets. (1/15) The suite ends with the sound of a wordless female choir repeating two chords and fading away. Fading away is nothing to anyone with a mixing desk or any recording software. But doing it live is another matter. Especially when it’s a hundred years ago. (2/15)

In 1978, Douglas Adams and John Lloyd were commissioned to write the novel of The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy.

They rented a cheap villa in the remote village of Agios Stefanos in Corfu to use as HHGG HQ. (1/12) But long before they even started looking for their suitcases, Adams sacked Lloyd. Lloyd wasn’t happy, but decided he’d go along anyway, not least because he’d already paid. (2/12)