I always like Aldeburgh – the way one can walk down from the church to the beach, the way that cottages abut straight onto the beach, how the beach is surprisingly unmanicured and the town not too chi-chi. I was told that it was wealth which kept it undeveloped and probably lots of people who have been there for years and know how to protect its character. Anyway, it made for a very nice audience for a literary festival, as interested in the fate of the Whitechapel Bell Foundry as in what I had to say about the future of museums:-