I feel really spoilt!

The new Gil Scott-Heron album is on the way, as is the final collaboration between the late, great Ali Farka Toure and Toumani Diabate.

I was reminded last night of how good public service broadcasting could be. Using iPlayer, I caught Sir Terry Pratchett's Dimbleby Lecture, concerning assisted death (not suicide). Sir Michael Parkinson's dignity report is here.