This coming Sunday (6th November) sees Nick Mason taking part in the 72nd annual London to Brighton Veteran Car Run event, which attracts vintage cars and drivers from all over the world, to celebrate the introduction of the Highway Act. This permitted light locomotives to increase their top speed from 4mph to 14mph and abolished the requirement to be preceded by a man on foot carrying a red flag!

Our US readers should make a date in their diary for Sunday, November 6th. Roger Waters is interviewed on the A&E programme, "Breakfast With The Arts", which is presented by Karina Huber, on that day's programme when it airs at 8:00am ET.

Roger chats with the host as part of a fairly packed programme, which also features actor Matthew Modine, talking about his new book, Full Metal Jacket Diary, a photographic memoir set behind-the-scenes of the Kubrick film. Ben Folds and Martina McBride also feature, alongside a look at New York's Julliard School (which has close links with the late Michael Kamen), and Bryan Adams, who also featured on Roger's Berlin 1990 Wall concert.

Please check local listings for TV stations near you carrying this programme.

The new issue (cover date December 2005; issue 317) of the UK's Record Collector magazine features an interview with Roger Waters, under the headline of "The Missing Pink".

The interview, by RC's Jonathan Wingate, covers four pages and finds Roger in expansive mood, covering such topics as Ca Ira, and venturing into the world of opera; the hunting bill introduced by the UK's current government; and his poetry - where he mentions that he might issue "a slim volume [of poems] at some point".

This month saw the release of "A Tribute To The King", a DVD which features a concert performed behind closed doors at London's legendary Abbey Road Studios, last November, celebrating 50 years of rock'n'roll, and we had three copies to give away to BD visitors!