4 Day was looking forward to speaking to his old friend Alex. Alex was an expert on Greek ceramics on the staff of the British Museum, and they had worked together quite often at one time, in the days before Day moved to Greece. When Day’s new agent, Maurice Atkinson, had started to find Day good work in Greece and persuaded him to expand his activities as a broadcast presenter, all that had changed. As Greek time was two hours ahead of the UK, Day had the pleasure of a slow start to his morning. At eleven thirty he took his phone to his room and smiled as he brought up Alex’s mobile number. Their collaboration would be fun, and if Alex agreed to drop everything now and come to Naxos, even better. “Alex? This is Martin. Is this a good time? Nine-thirty there, is it? I trust I’ve caught

