I'm publishing a series of blog posts by legendary radio curmudgeon Ed Reardon on the Radio 4 blog. A sort of diary of the festive season. Not very festive, though. There are four in all and the first two are up now for your reading pleasure. Very funny, if you ask me... A modern-day J.B. Morton:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/radio4/edreardonsxmas/

Producer James Hale visited The Original New Timbral Orchestra, the monster hybrid synth used on a clutch of important Stevie Wonder albums in the seventies, in its New Jersey home. He made this video and a Radio 4 programme you can hear tomorrow (Tuesday 30 Nov) at lunchtime http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00w7bly

I'm pretty sure my secondary school homework was mostly sums and Huguenots but my son the drummer is required to review a live gig of some kind for his homework. He's got to do this in the next week or so, so the big London venues that allow under-18s are all sold out and most other places don't allow kids at all. Can you think of something I could take him to?

I edit the Radio 4 blog http://bit.ly/R4Blog. So when I heard Nicola Stanbridge's Today programme item about the Rock & Roll Public Library http://bit.ly/Zhmnn I decided it was excuse enough for a trip over to London W11 to take some photos (zone 1 & 2 Travelcard, £5.60, no expenses claim planned).

I loved it. A messy, self-indulgent, big-hearted and genuinely moving tapestry of post-war pop junk. And I loved the two lads on the door, both of whom are still at school and one of whom is Alexis Korner's grandson. They totally identified with the innocent, wide-eyed end of the punk ethos and with Mick and The Clash - and the fact that the whole thing is taking place underneath the Westway induced a kind of nostalgia vertigo that gave me goose bumps.

Wrote a blog post about it too http://bit.ly/18M0W3

In an oak-lined office on Langham Place in London's glamorous West End, elite BBC jazzers have put aside their trombones for long enough to make arrangements for a small experiment - something we're calling 'Good Radio Club'.

The idea is to encourage listeners (that's you) to listen to a radio programme and to get a conversation going about it while you're listening.

To join in, all you have to do is:

* Listen to the show - Ken Clarke's Jazz Greats at 1330 on Radio 4 today, Tuesday (this only works with the live edition!).

* Twitter away merrily while the show's on, making sure you use the hash tag #GoodRadioClub in every tweet (if you don't do that, nobody will know what you're on about).

* Visit the web site http://goodradioclub.co.uk to find out how to follow the conversation yourself.

Piece of cake. Hope you can come.

By the way, this Thursday evening at 2030 we're doing it again, this time with an episode of brainy topical feature programme Analysis. The show, presented by Kenan Malik, features Stephen Fry talking about social media and we've got our fingers crossed that he'll actually join in with #GoodRadioClub on the night.

Steve Bowbrick, Editor, Radio 4 blog
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/radio4