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To mark the opening of the year 2009, my latest BBC Radio 4 series of A Point of View is complete and the final programmes are now available permanently in the Audio section. In the Video section, the fifth series of “Talking in the Library”, produced in collaboration with SkyArts in Spring 2007, is also being made available. The first programme features Alexei Sayle, and the other eight programmes in the series – including Emma Thompson, Jeremy Irons and Stephen Fry – will follow month by month. Meanwhile a fifth series, featuring Germaine Greer, Tom Stoppard, Will Self, Salman Rushdie, Melvyn Bragg, and Patrick Stewart, is being streamed on TimesOnline.

Other new features, such as podcasts of a selection of radio and video programmes, and improvements to the website’s user-friendliness, are in the works, under the supervision of digital media specialist Ariadne Zanella, and of my web master Dawn Mancer. With a total of 1000 pages, this website gets bigger by the month. Feel free to wander, perhaps starting with NEW, which gives a quick guide to the latest postings, and thus a history of how the site grows. For other details concerning the site’s evolution over the past five years, including the site’s manifesto and previous homepages, see the About section.

— London, January 2009