Here is the documentary film Internal Flight which was made about my life and the subsequent search for my father. It was produced by and broadcast on BBC Television. Read more [...]

5X15 is five speakers with fifteen minutes each to speak in front of an audience. Ruby Wax kicks off and talks as if the audience were an old friend. She is a skilled practitioner in being who she Read more [...]

I am at Chalkwell Hall in Southend. There’s twenty thousand people here. The sun has an Access All Areas pass at Village Green and so do I. Paul Morley arrives. He’s smiling from ear to ear and Read more [...]

So I am in the presence of a master manipulator of the hypothalamus - Noel Wallace - in a dance piece called HEEL at one of the most beautiful theatre’s in London, Wilton’s Music Hall. Noel made Read more [...]

Evening. There are two events tonight. Both are important. One is in central London and one is in East London. At 6pm I cycle to the leaving party of Mark Damazer the head of BBC radio 4 whom after Read more [...]

On Sept 18th Andrew Nairne Executive director of Arts Council England asked What Can Art Do? I wrote this. The great religions are promulgated through society by art. Christianity would be invisible Read more [...]

So I am in York Hall in Bethnal Green: It's a warm evening and it’s sold out and there’s four hundred of us in the audience. The temperature rises a few degrees. There’s a boxing ring lit up in the centre and I’ve a ring-side seat and the Bell rings. Ding. Read more [...]

London is full of models on account of it being London fashion week. The slurping sound of Miso soup is deafening and sales of rice cakes have gone through the roof. But the munching sound. The munching Read more [...]

Love Sex Death And Words, Suprising Tales From A Year In Literature by John Sutherland and Stephen Fender arrived as a complimentary advance copy today. Calendrical in form it uncovers a true surprising Read more [...]

I used to say it was a way of offsetting my nicotine footprint but in not smoking I’ll just have to admit that cycling the ten mile round trip to my office at Southbank Centre has been an invigorating Read more [...]