Rivers & Boats & Rhythm & Blues: on BBC Radio 4 this evening, the first in a series of 15 minute radio documentaries going out under the banner, Kenneth Cranham On The Water. The subject this week is Eel Pie Island, 1964. Home then to the young faces of the burgeoning British R & B scene, and (fellow anglers take note) now the favoured hang out of the best dressed fish in the river, the perch. I kid you not these fish are the dandies.

Listen on the iPlayer.