Good to see "Essex tranvestite potter" Grayson Perry trending on Twitter with his BBC Radio 4 Reith Lectures. There's an earthy Essex spin to his time at the podium: "Playing to the gallery and not sucking up to an urban elite" and "taking the piss out of Marxist intellectuals." You don't normally get laughs at a Reith Lecture but Perry in a dress makes it all accessible and funny. And not content with that he's opened the only shop in the village in Wrabness last week…
