I have become a time traveller. Not literally, unfortunately, but in name at least, as I join the team of Time Travellers on BBC Radio 3’s Essential Classics. Time Travellers is a fun feature which goes out Monday to Friday at about 10.10am, in which presenters pique listeners’ interest with a quirky slice of cultural history. I’ve told stories about how Dorothy Parker’s ashes ended up at the Baltimore Headquarters of the NAACP, how one of Samuel Beckett’s ghost stories was rejected for being too creepy, and, one of my favourites, how George Bernard Shaw is responsible for Amazon’s Echo being gendered female, even though she doesn’t know why. More stories from me during the course of 2018; in the meantime, go here for some of the best journeys of the Time Travellers team.