Work of the Week! 🖼️ A Cornish Lane in Autumn by Stanhope Alexander Forbes RA. This beautiful oil on canvas captures the rich warmth and gentle light of a Cornish autumn day — a hallmark of Forbes’ masterful ability to portray everyday life and landscape with sensitivity and atmosphere.

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I love Radio 4 Extra and it gave me some of my favourite jobs including Newsjack. I am gutted to hear this news, not least because it is my almost constant companion in my car. I want to be able to stumble across programmes that I might not have chosen to listen to - please sign the petition

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Personally, I'd rather one license fee to subscriptions to Amazon, Disney, Apple, Paramount, Discovery, Netflix, Sky, You Tube etc. It's actually very funny that in this climate of endless direct debits, no one has really been able to make a good case for the license fee

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Streamers represent horrible value for money if you add up the total cost and compare it to what you actually watch. Especially when your fav shows have a 2 year wait between seasons

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"Salt eel" was a slang term among English sailors for a rope whip. Samuel Pepys recorded thrashing his servant with one, writing, “With my salt eel went down in the parlor & there got my boy & did beat him till I was fain to take breath.” Not cool, Sam. Not cool. 1/2 🗃️🧪

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