I agree with you there, on the Dark is Rising. I used to haunt the bookshops when the new volume was due. The technical facilities are now in place, too. I had a disappointment though, with their recent Eagle of the Ninth on radio. Only on one point, though. I thought of this with the recent query about Kipling's Roman soldiers' song. Rosemary Sutcliffe wrote one, too, "The girl I left at Clusium", and in the first, Children's Hour, version, there was a tune which I can still remember, and whistle. This time, I wanted to hear what they had done with it. My impression was that it was very vaguely based on the original tune, but without being tuneful. I couldn't imagine anyone singing it, or marching to it, or whistling it.