BBC RADIO 3'S CREATIVE NIGHTWAVES

The 9pm "watershed" has brought some especially good listening on BBC Radio over the past couple of days.

On Sunday there was "Looking for Leonora" about the English artist Leonora Carrington, now aged 93 and looking forward to being 100, whose work is shown here.

Carrington - also known as "Prim" - eloped with the famous Surrealist Max Ernst in 1937, and after their wartime separation moved to Mexico where she still lives.

Yesterday's Radio 3 "Nightwaves" show brought an interview with the US oceanographer Dr Sylvia Earle, also known as "Her Deepness" and "The Sturgeon General".

Earle's formative experiences were in the Gulf of Mexico, about whose current problems, and those of the wider oceans, she talked with great passion and profundity.

A watershed indeed !