I’ll be in Bristol tomorrow for the kick off meeting for Airship Shape and Bristol Fashion, the new Wizard’s Tower steampunk anthology. From 6:30pm we’ll be at the Shakespeare Tavern in Prince Street where Eugene Byrne will be entertaining us with tales of the more eccentric and story-worthy inhabitants of Victorian Bristol. Jo Hall and Roz Clarke will be on hand to discuss your story ideas. There’s a Facebook event page for those of you who do such things. I hope to see a good crowd there.

As I’m in town anyway I’ll also be doing Women’s Outlook on Ujima between Noon and 14:00. I don’t have any studio guests myself as this isn’t a planned appearance, but Paulette will have some interesting people coming in. One of the things on the agenda is May Day, and as Liz Williams will be in London for the Clarke Award ceremony I’ll be the emergency holographic neo-pagan.

Also on my list of topics for tomorrow’s show will be this petition which aims to ensure that there are always some women amongst the famous Britons from history featured on our banknotes. I think they have to be dead to qualify, but that still leaves plenty of wonderful women to choose from. Off the top of my head, we could have Agatha Christie, Virginia Woolf, Mary Shelley, Aphra Behn or Dorothy L. Sayers from literature; Ada Lovelace or Rosalind Franklin from science; Mary Wollstonecraft or Emmeline Pankhurst from politics. Feel free to add suggestions in comments; and sign the petition, of course.