I didn’t have time to mention it here before it started, but Book of the Week on Radio 4 is Kathleen Jamie’s deeply layered Surfacing (Sort Of Books), which was one of my books of 2019. Jamie and another poet, Denise Riley, were guests recently on an episode of Ian McMillan’s The Verb on Radio 3, musing on the writing of “deep time”; you can still hear that on the BBC website.

  On February 14, incidentally, McMillan will be interviewing Jan Morris, who “looks back over a career in writing that has spanned seven decades and explains what it is that keeps her returning to her writing desk every day at the age of 91”. A second volume of Morris’s diaries, Thinking Again, is due to be published by Faber in March.