Television heaven

The rain has stopped and so I ventured out to the Museum of Television and Radio on W52nd Street. Extraordinary place. First of all you go into this room and sit at a computer and make a selection of up to four programmes from a database of everything that ever been on television or on the radio in America. Then you go up to this desk and they give you a printout which you take downstairs and they show you to a booth where you can sit and watch your selection. So much to choose from I was like a kid in a sweetshop. Finally selected an episode of Andy Warhol TV, a Woody Allen Television special and - what else - oh a Judy Garland concert and television show. All splendid stuff.

The museum also has several screens showing popular stuff and documentaries. I watched a documentary tracing the way television has been used in presidential electioneering since 1952 to the present day. Much more interesting than it sounds - what a lot of dirty tricks those Republicans have used - most distasteful.

Feeling so confident using the subway I jumped on a V train, sat down and read a book. I became aware that the stations were further apart than usual - and then realised I was at 23rd Street in...Brooklyn. Oops - not as good at this as I thought.

A double-bill of Cary Grant films on the telly - they don't make them like that anymore.