Stop, Look, Listen: Smash Hits-quality horoscopes, a perfect chapter (thanks Anita Brookner), birthday do DJ Laurie Anderson, mid-century wee stops & my biggest female pop crush on iPlayer at last

It’s 4.10pm and I’ve just sat down in London again, having woken up in Wales (train/tube/interview /walk through London’s backstreets with a dodgy wheelie case/hotel). But! I’m still here with five things for your/my five-minute Monday wind-down…

If you don’t know Radio 3’s Music Matters and like modern classical music, put it on your list – it’s a lovel…