Diversity Website
Radio Plays, Drama, Early Keyboard Music, English Apples, Potatoes, Fine Art, Go-kart Racing
What's on this site, and how do I get around?
Use the links on the left to get to the main pages.
If you get lost use the BACK button, or click on my sketch of the house in the top left
hand corner, which returns you to this page. Below are listed a few
of the things on this site:
RADIO PLAYS
Information on three hundred radio writers and sixty
radio producers, articles by James Follett, Dawn Lowe-Watson,
Jean Barnes, Steve
Walker, Michelene Wandor, Bert Coules,
Catherine Czerkawska, Mike Harris and other radio writers,
details of BBC radio drama past and present, pages for
writers and producers, reviews of recent BBC radio drama,
and details of several thousand radio dramas broadcast over the
last forty years, awards, essays by Graham Gauld and Richard Wortley.
. We hope the site will raise the profile of UK Radio
Drama and make people aware of what they are missing. If you are a
writer and not featured, please get in touch.
GROW IT
New magazine for those who want to grow their own fruit and veg -
details...
website...
ENERGY
I have recently constructed (for my brother) a
website on ENERGY, which is concerned with wind turbines,
other renewables, and sensible energy use. If you're interested, the web address is
www.habitat21.co.uk/
Those who know me will be aware that I've done work on
energy and renewables since the mid-seventies.
EKEGUSII
I have been contacted by Kennedy Bosire, who has begun the
Ekegusii Encyclopedic Projects. Kennedy is compiling an encyclopedia of
his mother tongue - Ekegusii, the language of the Abagusii, one of the
tribes of the Republic of Kenya. This link gives details
of his work.
ENGLISH APPLES
Articles on English Apples, rootstocks, learning to graft,
varieties, making wine from apples, growing very
late apples, history of apples, the National
Fruit Collection, apples from pips, how to make cider, vitamin C content
of apples, Leicestershire apples, reasons for grafting, training or
shaping apple trees, how to prune, espaliers, lost apples, rediscovered
apples, apple days, identifying unknown apples.....
MUSIC
Early keyboard music, listed by composer and by country, Iberian
keyboard music, Nigel Deacon's piano music, Ray Clarke's music, folktune
arrangements, fugues, miniatures, orchestral, piano duets, two-piano music,
ornamentation in early
music, playing early music on the piano instead of the organ or
harpsichord, Ben Burrows.....
ARTWORK
Nigel is a black and white artist. There are some pictures on
the Artwork page.
ENGLISH APPLES
We are collecting very late unknown varieties of English
apple and grafting them...see apples page...
WINE MAKING AT HOME
Most books on winemaking are unimaginative and out of date - even
new publications.
Learn how to make wine at home painlessly and efficiently. See
Winemaking page. Also FAQs on winemaking, notes on noble grape
varieties, wine articles.
GOKART RACING
My brother runs a large gokart circuit in Leicestershire called
Sutton Circuit. Click on the Gokarting link at the side of the page for
information.
GARDENERS' QUESTION TIME (GQT)
Do you remember Bill Sowerbutts, Fred Loads, Alan Gemmell,
Clay Jones, Fred Downham, Stefan Buczacki, Daphne Ledward
, Geoffrey
Smith, et. al...?
I am collecting recordings of old programmes
and putting together an archive
-email if you have any and are willing to send copies.
Around 140 episodes obtained so far, most of them pre-1990.
AN ADVERT:
I am writing pages about RADIO PRODUCERS.
If you can help, or are a radio producer (or playwright) and would
like an on-line presence, please email.
PRODUCERS are found on the RADIO PLAYS page.
TEST MATCH SPECIAL and A VIEW FROM THE BOUNDARY
With Aggers & Co, and radio dramas involving cricket. Click
on "Radio" on the left. (I could have added a
link here, but you'd miss the other stuff on the Radio page)
ENGLISH POTATOES
Numerous articles on most aspects of potato growing, including
potatoes in containers, descriptions of varieties (English, Irish, Scottish
and other heritage types), blight, chimeras, cooking qualities.
ORGANIC GROWING AND HDRA (GARDEN ORGANIC)
Articles on grapes , tomatoes, vegetables,
fruit, etc.
Most of the material on this website is original; we don't always
invent the wheel but we are not plagiarists....
IF ANYONE THINKS WE HAVE INFRINGED COPYRIGHT,
PLEASE CONTACT US
STRAIGHT AWAY.
Who are we?
We are Alison and Nigel Deacon who live in
South Leicestershire, England.
Why have we added another website to the ether?
What have we to say that might interest you?
We have
information about:
Gokart racing in South Leicestershire
Composing music for piano
Cosby Methodist Church
Radio drama and features
Iberian Baroque Music
Potato growing
English Apples
Line drawings
Cider making
Piano duets
Wine making
Ekegusii
and a few other things. Something to
interest almost everyone....
Designed by Alison Deacon
