Hung with Ivy

For those seeking a deeper understanding of Tim Davie, there's a long piece by Jean Seaton in Prospect.

We learn that, at Selwyn College, Cambridge, our ordinary-geezer-from-Croydon chose to make a special study of works of Ivy Compton-Burnett, under the supervision of Dr Jean Chotia, still a fellow of the college. 

How this interest in the dark dialogues of middle-class Edwardian England squared with evenings spent spinning the latest platters from the keyboards of Underworld is, perhaps, a measure of Mr Davie's hidden depths. Flavoursome.