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When a birthday is the worst day of your life.
May 15th, 2020
From childhood and in adulthood Birthdays and Christmas Days were the most torturous days of the year for me. One in the heart of summer one in the bowls of winter. Each struck like a sickness whose symptoms Read more [...]
May was to be the most exciting month of my career.
May 3rd, 2020
Stop right there. The blog has been public for 10 minutes and your responses have been generous and kind. This one touched me because anything I say about my losses (in the ensuing blog post) pale Read more [...]
David Olusoga, Emilia Clarke, Dame Helen Mirren & myself on TV.
May 1st, 2020
I am in good health. I hope you are too. I’m sharing a bit of news on four online appearances over the next week. All are free and easy to access. Shall we begin.
Iggy Pop, Tilda Swinton Jeremy Irons, Read more [...]
After ten years my morning messages have come to an end.
April 27th, 2020
“Soon dawn appeared and touched the sky with roses” – From Emily Wilson’s translation of Homer's “The Odyssey”.
For ten years between 6am and 10am I have created epithets to dawn Read more [...]
Ground Control to Major Tom.
March 29th, 2020
"Ground control to Major Tom.
Yes Major Tom quite a few of us at Ground Control have been quarantined. Best you stay up there. This is an illustration by Sarah McIntyre on 24th March. That's my Read more [...]
Sathianath. It means truth
February 4th, 2020
Thankyou for your generous and frankly heart warming responses to my previous post. I sent it from India. I have been at Jaipur Literature festival and then Mathrubhumi International Festival of Letters Read more [...]
One hundred days of Solipsism.
January 5th, 2020
It’s December 7th 2019, exactly 100 days since the launch of My Name Is Why at The Edinburgh Book Festival. I have just arrived at Heathrow Airport from a few days filming and performing in Ethiopia. Read more [...]
Desperately Seeking Suzi
December 18th, 2019
Will you help me find “Suzi”? Her Ethiopian siblings have been searching for her for years. They want to fulfil their late parents dearest wishes to find their beloved daughter.
It started just Read more [...]
Trash Talk: Cynicism kills optimism thrills
September 2nd, 2011On digital diarrhea. If my email address is included in a rambling list of people who, it’s been determined, may have some interest in the progression, or in more cases the depression, of the Read more [...]
Zen and The Art of Driving Awareness.
September 1st, 2011I am on a drivers awareness course in Brighton .It’s brilliant. I got up at 5am and I’m here in Sussex at 8am being taught how to drive and also, it seems, how to live. it’s all going a bit Buddhist. Read more [...]