Samuel West. Purbeck Art Week. Radio - I Come From There. Eastside Education Trust charity auction.

• Tonight, Sam and cellist Natalie Clein will be performing at St Mary's Church, Swanage (via the Bournemouth Echo). A tweet from Sam about the concert:
  

  "Off to Dorset for gig with cellist Natalie Clein. She's playing Kodaly and Bach, I'm reading Ted Hughes. Bracing. Bon week-end, all."

• The Telegraph included I Come From There: The Poetry of Mahmoud Darwish in its iPlayer choices [link]
• A reminder: The Eastside Educational Trust Bonhams charity auction is 30 September 2010 at Bonhams Auction House, 101 New Bond St London W1. Sam's contribution is a morning of birdwatching at Rainham Marshes, and lunch afterwards.