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The rock’n’rollers were right – vinyl is the future After decades spent listening to CDs, in lockdown I've fallen back in love with LPs – and the depth of sound is extraordinary Turning the tables: records are back in fashion Credit: Digital Vision Lockdown has given many of us time to revive neglected interests, or to confront chores that we have put off for years. Three or four years ago, my record deck died. It was distressing, because we were old friends. I had bought it in about 1982 with a preposterous proportion of my then-wealth, since nothing could be too good for my record c...

The work of reviving the almost forgotten folklore of this country was at first regarded by the public as an esoteric pastime serving to indulge the fancy of harmless cranks. Now, however, country dancing is widely practised in schools, social organisations, and in the six hundred branches of the society in every county of England. (The Scots and Welsh have their own separate societies, though there is liaison between the three organisations.) Grants are made to the society by the Ministry of Education, local education authorities, and by private bodies, and there are more than twelve thousan...