Here’s a roving report I gave for the Glue Factory in 2022.

… Moving unimpeded from Freud’s Vienna to my city and time zone, I can report that from my desk as I’ve been writing this piece, I could hear two workmen, they’re brothers, stripping, cleaning and repainting the smart metal railings of the next house up. They run a concentrated business, doing one task only, but it means that they’ve got good at it. Their outift is called, with commendable directness and with musical good taste, Paint it Black. Which is my theme for this evening….