BBC radio 4 this morning broadcast "A Festschrift for Lucky Jim", introduced by Prof Laurie Taylor, to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Kingsley Amis's novel. Various academics and literary luminaries, including Howard Jacobsen, Melvin Bragg and Norman Stone, recalled their memories of Jim Dixon. Prof John Carey even recalled Jim's morris dancing phase, when Jim would arrive/ be delivered back home sloshed from an evening's morris tour, and refuse to take his bells off before he had been carried up to bed. (Mind you, I can remember morris tours like that in Oxford when I was a student and went to hear John Carey lecturing on Charles Dickens and women....)