On Stage at Hull Truck

On Stage at Hull Truck

Hull is a city of poetry. There are the poets who came to Hull such as Philip Larkin, Andrew Motion and Douglas Dunn – and those born in the city like Andrew Marvell, Stevie Smith and Maurice Rutherford. The least well known is Rutherford. Born in Albert Avenue...
Ealing Book Festival – Saturday, May 2nd

Ealing Book Festival – Saturday, May 2nd

I had the honour of being interviewed at Ealing by local resident John Sergeant. I was paying my first visit to the festival which has been thriving in London W5 for a number of years. John, who was the political voice of ITV as well as the BBC for a long time, and a...
The Beatles, Harold Wilson & Me

The Beatles, Harold Wilson & Me

No, I’m not pointing to the iconic sleeve of ‘With the Beatles’, the Fab Four’s second LP (released on 22nd of November 1963, the day President Kennedy was assassinated ). The enormously clever people who work on this website took that album...
Oxford Literary Festival

Oxford Literary Festival

Ah, the dreaming spires. Two events in Oxford. The first at Pusey Hall was on my Harold Wilson biography. Harold was at Jesus College in the 30’s studying what was then called Modern Greats, now better known as Philosophy, Politics and Economics. The most brilliant...
York Literature Festival

York Literature Festival

Steve Richards and I are ‘Swifties’. That is to say we have both written books in the Swift Press series on eminent Prime Ministers – Steve on Tony Blair, me on Harold Wilson.  We got together to compare our subjects at the final event of the York Literature...