Heartbroken to hear about the loss of Sandra Kerr. In 2015, I tentatively contacted her to ask if she'd like to be a guest on my old radio show. I was hoping for a ten-minute phone interview about Bagpuss and the folk tradition, but she drove down to the studio in Middlesbrough...

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Sandra... 💔

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Annual visit to the Frieze sculptures in Regents Park done. Excellent autumny day for it.

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In Jean Luc Picard, Patrick Stewart was a lot of people’s model of what it might be to be a good man, a TV dad to men I know whose own dads didn’t give them much, or anything. He knew he was doing that because his own dad hadn’t been much of a man.

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Reliable citations are foundational: readers need to trace every source and verify it exists. Clear disclosure and human checking should be part of any AI-assisted research workflow. #ResearchIntegrity #AI

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