radio 4 - civilisation in 30 minute chunks

I'm a big fan of BBC Radio 4, all right-thinking people are and I'm always keen to share the interesting bits of it that I've heard. I've been using the Squidoo, and I like Squidoo as an idea, but it's just not working for me. (And right now it's not working at all.) It's too hard to get in and out of a different set of pages and interfaces and menus and stuff. So I don't update it enough. So instead I might start pointing at stuff via here. First couple you can listen to online:

The CIA and the Avant-Garde. A brilliant thing about the Internationalen Ferienkursen für Neue Musik, a festival of challengingly difficult music, funded covertly by Langley. Marvelous.

As Safe As Houses. A series about property from Marcus Brigstocke. Mildly funny and mildy thought-provoking. That sounds like damning with faint praise, but I like mild. Contains a good fact to throw around - there are 60 million people in Britain, and 60 million acres of land. That means me, Anne and Arthur should have 3 acres. Where are our 3 acres?

Comments

[Chris H]

I think you trade your right to land in return for not having to farm your own food. It would be interesting to know what you could produce from an acre, though.

[Paul Mison]

1 hectare of farmland (arable or pasture) is selling for about £7000 at the momment in the UK, according to UK Land Investments. 1 hectare is about 2.5 acres, so your three acres aren't worth that much.

Of course, some acres are in cities, but some are mountains, and hence probably worth even less.

Chris H: New Scientist's Last Word column had a long correspondence earlier this year (around March, I think) about how much land you'd need to support a family. I think the conclusion was in the region of eight acres, but I'm having trouble finding the original article on their site.

[christofay]

All right now citizens and residents of the U. K., the Yanks have decent radio now too listenable on-line at kcrwmusic.com.