On tour

Blimey, I hope Helen Boaden gets a non-exec somewhere soon.

The former Director of Radio is using her wind-down time at Auntie to put herself on show. Today. she's in Norway, helping with the first switch-off of FM transmitters. Next Monday she's at the Radio Academy North East Branch, interviewed in front of an audience at the University of Sunderland. On the 24th January she shares after-dinner insights with the personnel-focused Devonshire House Network at the Royal Thames Yacht Club in Knightsbridge (tickets £85)

In May, presumably after she's gone from the payroll, she will be a Joan Shorenstein Fellow at a Spring School organised by the Kennedy Centre at Harvard, but will be back on 22 May for a Media Society interview with Jane Garvey at the Groucho in London.