The MV RSS newsfeed, delivering the 20 hottest threads on the Midnight Voices (Pete Atkin and Clive James) Web Forumen-gb http://www.peteatkin.com/cgi-bin/mv/YaBB.cgi Sharing the excitement, at the far end of Earth. It's great to hear that Pete is better. How fortunate indeed to have planned a London family reunion to coincide with the gig. It's been too long since we last saw Pete in concert (that would have been in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, with Amos in a front pa... [continues]https://www.peteatkin.com/cgi-bin/mv/YaBB.cgi?board=App;action=display;num=1785868795;start=2#2https://www.peteatkin.com/cgi-bin/mv/YaBB.cgi?board=App;action=display;num=1785868795;start=2#201 Sep 2026 04:08:42GigsNoam Greenberg Stephen -- great to hear from you again and heartened to learn you're still on the case! | You are in fact the first person ever to respond positively to my plea for missing print copies of Clive's column, and I would be quite delighted to receive the ones you've discovered. You have my email addres... [continues]https://www.peteatkin.com/cgi-bin/mv/YaBB.cgi?board=Words;action=display;num=1714982190;start=3#3https://www.peteatkin.com/cgi-bin/mv/YaBB.cgi?board=Words;action=display;num=1714982190;start=3#327 Aug 2026 20:02:36WordsS J Birkill Thanks Steve and Jonny. | Sorry it took me a while to get back- thought i ticked for email notifications, but I mustn't have. | I really hope to get to the performance. | Alan. https://www.peteatkin.com/cgi-bin/mv/YaBB.cgi?board=news;action=display;num=1786479703;start=5#5https://www.peteatkin.com/cgi-bin/mv/YaBB.cgi?board=news;action=display;num=1786479703;start=5#522 Aug 2026 17:18:21NewsAlan That is some anniversary Steve! I wonder if you envisaged back then how your extraordinary start-up would flower into such a superb project that has enriched so many of our lives and spurred Pete to make his blessed come back. | Unlike the Thirty Year Man's audience, we are (almost) ALL still listen... [continues]https://www.peteatkin.com/cgi-bin/mv/YaBB.cgi?board=news;action=display;num=1783450841;start=2#2https://www.peteatkin.com/cgi-bin/mv/YaBB.cgi?board=news;action=display;num=1783450841;start=2#226 Jul 2026 21:02:17NewsAvner Greenberg This October we can look forward to a "new" book by Clive: | https://www.panmacmillan.com/authors/clive-james/the-light-as-it-grows-dark/9781037406478 | https://www.amazon.co.uk/Light-Grows-Dark-Poems-Clive/dp/1037406478 | Publisher's blurb: | Beautiful and deeply meditative poems on illness, ageing... [continues]https://www.peteatkin.com/cgi-bin/mv/YaBB.cgi?board=Words;action=display;num=1784596579;start=0#0https://www.peteatkin.com/cgi-bin/mv/YaBB.cgi?board=Words;action=display;num=1784596579;start=0#021 Jul 2026 02:16:19WordsRevelator The latest edition of Pete's email newsletter is now available for all to read on the Newsletter Archive Page . | Read all about the Broken Arm. Pete relates the incident in unprecedented depth, including slow-motion action replays, witness interviews, osteometric radiology slides and analysis of th... [continues]https://www.peteatkin.com/cgi-bin/mv/YaBB.cgi?board=newsletter;action=display;num=1781212041;start=0#0https://www.peteatkin.com/cgi-bin/mv/YaBB.cgi?board=newsletter;action=display;num=1781212041;start=0#011 Jun 2026 22:07:21NewsletterS J Birkill What an absolute rock star! Best wishes for swift healing. | Catherinehttps://www.peteatkin.com/cgi-bin/mv/YaBB.cgi?board=App;action=display;num=1779038414;start=6#6https://www.peteatkin.com/cgi-bin/mv/YaBB.cgi?board=App;action=display;num=1779038414;start=6#611 Jun 2026 14:21:30GigsCM1978 https://www.peteatkin.com/images/Averham_Pete_Maggie.jpg | Did you enjoy the script? Here now is the complete show, the 1968 revue in its 'touring' version, as broadcast by | the BBC from the bijou Robin Hood Theatre, Averham, Notts. Please note this item is not for public consumption -- | I've res... [continues]https://www.peteatkin.com/cgi-bin/mv/YaBB.cgi?board=Chums;action=display;num=1780988120;start=1#1https://www.peteatkin.com/cgi-bin/mv/YaBB.cgi?board=Chums;action=display;num=1780988120;start=1#111 Jun 2026 07:39:35ChumsS J Birkill A member asked me recently about Pete's play, and whether the script had been published. I realised I had a photocopy that Pete had sent me way back in the earliest days of the website, and thought it about time I did something with it. So here it is - | www.peteatkin.com/download/ARscript.pdf | Ste... [continues]https://www.peteatkin.com/cgi-bin/mv/YaBB.cgi?board=Music;action=display;num=1780879696;start=0#0https://www.peteatkin.com/cgi-bin/mv/YaBB.cgi?board=Music;action=display;num=1780879696;start=0#008 Jun 2026 01:48:16MusicS J Birkill Hi there! | In 1973, Julian Mount (that's me) privately released a vinyl album of his original songs called "Unsung Lies". Now in 2026, the album is re-released on the Seelie Court/Good Times record label worldwide! The CD is available from 29 May 2026. The vinyl version will follow on 26 June. The ... [continues]https://www.peteatkin.com/cgi-bin/mv/YaBB.cgi?board=members;action=display;num=1328292848;start=1#1https://www.peteatkin.com/cgi-bin/mv/YaBB.cgi?board=members;action=display;num=1328292848;start=1#129 May 2026 15:04:05MembersJtJ Apologies for posting this in the "Words" board, notionally reserved for Clive James's writings, for this in fact references Pete's own radio work, something we at MV don't seem to have a more appropriate space for. | In the April 4th episode of his "Sceptred Dial" blog, Radio Times journalist Simon... [continues]https://www.peteatkin.com/cgi-bin/mv/YaBB.cgi?board=Words;action=display;num=1779861394;start=0#0https://www.peteatkin.com/cgi-bin/mv/YaBB.cgi?board=Words;action=display;num=1779861394;start=0#027 May 2026 06:56:34WordsS J Birkill https://www.peteatkin.com/images/durham850.jpg | Durham Folk Festival writes "Pete will join us for music performances across the weekend, and will lead a songwriting workshop. As his astonishingly prolific work in radio is worthy of an event in itself, Pete will be In Conversation with festival co... [continues]https://www.peteatkin.com/cgi-bin/mv/YaBB.cgi?board=App;action=display;num=1777144806;start=0#0https://www.peteatkin.com/cgi-bin/mv/YaBB.cgi?board=App;action=display;num=1777144806;start=0#025 Apr 2026 20:20:06GigsS J Birkill Sorry, I'm a bit late announcing this, but in case you're in the London area tomorrow -- | https://www.peteatkin.com/images/timbenton.jpg | Tickets are still available, HERE . The show begins at 6 p.m. tomorrow (Sunday, 26th April) in Greenwich Theatre 's 'Studio', and Tim will be accompanied by our... [continues]https://www.peteatkin.com/cgi-bin/mv/YaBB.cgi?board=App;action=display;num=1777136627;start=0#0https://www.peteatkin.com/cgi-bin/mv/YaBB.cgi?board=App;action=display;num=1777136627;start=0#025 Apr 2026 18:03:47GigsS J Birkill Thanks Steve. If it's of interest,I would mention that Al Steele is an ex-pat Aussie (as Clive James was,of course) who as well as being a member of The Korgis (best known for their hits Everybody's Got To Learn Sometime and If I Had You as well as other songs such as Something About The Beatles and... [continues]https://www.peteatkin.com/cgi-bin/mv/YaBB.cgi?board=App;action=display;num=1776630419;start=3#3https://www.peteatkin.com/cgi-bin/mv/YaBB.cgi?board=App;action=display;num=1776630419;start=3#321 Apr 2026 13:56:07GigsPaul_Griffin Yes, friends, on Thursday that magnificent venue will host a performance of Igor Stravinsky's ballet music Le Sacr du printemps , played entirely from memory by the Aurora Orchestra. | https://www.peteatkin.com/images/pheascab.jpg | However, if your preference is for a one-time game-bird shop, scho... [continues]https://www.peteatkin.com/cgi-bin/mv/YaBB.cgi?board=App;action=display;num=1775947547;start=0#0https://www.peteatkin.com/cgi-bin/mv/YaBB.cgi?board=App;action=display;num=1775947547;start=0#011 Apr 2026 23:45:47GigsS J Birkill I mentioned this to Steve and he 'encouraged' me to let y'all know that but, first, a pre-amble. | On the 7th of May 2001 I went to The Vortex (Jazz) Club in Stoke Newington Church Street in order to see Pete. Before the gig, I chatted to a guy, who gave the impression that this evening was (mainly... [continues]https://www.peteatkin.com/cgi-bin/mv/YaBB.cgi?board=App;action=display;num=1775821529;start=0#0https://www.peteatkin.com/cgi-bin/mv/YaBB.cgi?board=App;action=display;num=1775821529;start=0#010 Apr 2026 12:45:29GigsRichard Whiting Many thanks for this info Steve - although I am sorry to be out of town again - oh well here's hoping for more! :https://www.peteatkin.com/cgi-bin/mv/YaBB.cgi?board=App;action=display;num=1770328854;start=1#1https://www.peteatkin.com/cgi-bin/mv/YaBB.cgi?board=App;action=display;num=1770328854;start=1#118 Feb 2026 08:09:30GigsSean Kelly I have my older brother to thank. However, I wondered if the topic title "Westminster Charing Cross Record Library" might be a long lost Kinks track?https://www.peteatkin.com/cgi-bin/mv/YaBB.cgi?board=members;action=display;num=1770217916;start=1#1https://www.peteatkin.com/cgi-bin/mv/YaBB.cgi?board=members;action=display;num=1770217916;start=1#106 Feb 2026 15:05:59MembersTerry_Caster One of the greatest treats for us one-eyed eighty-year-olds is to be able to stand up (yes, that's an achievement in itsef) in front of a jam-packed selection the classiest audience members to be found anywhere and sing 'em a bunch of songs that most of the rest of the population have never heard of... [continues]https://www.peteatkin.com/cgi-bin/mv/YaBB.cgi?board=App;action=display;num=1769861767;start=0#0https://www.peteatkin.com/cgi-bin/mv/YaBB.cgi?board=App;action=display;num=1769861767;start=0#031 Jan 2026 12:16:06GigsPete Atkin Hi. I was very pleased to be at the Pheasantry last night for another great gig by Pete & Simon and thought I'd provide the set lists for the benefit of those who couldn't be there. They played several songs I hadn't heard them do before together with a fair few classics. As before, I have added... [continues]https://www.peteatkin.com/cgi-bin/mv/YaBB.cgi?board=App;action=display;num=1763947039;start=4#4https://www.peteatkin.com/cgi-bin/mv/YaBB.cgi?board=App;action=display;num=1763947039;start=4#430 Jan 2026 18:09:50GigsPaul_Griffin