This blog covers 42 days from Sept 6th October 18th and includes the one year landmark since my installation as Chancellor of University of Manchester. From The Institute of Directors on the roof tops Read more [...]
The past 18 days I've mainly been writing the first episode of a series called Origin Stories for BBC radio 4. (It's 318 days since my installation as Chancellor.) Then there's been the publication Read more [...]
This blog covers the 21 days which follow 24th July. It's 301 days since my installation as Chancellor at University of Manchester. We begin this blog with the second night at the proms. In the photo Read more [...]
This blog covers the past 15 days of a total of 280 days since my installation as Chancellor at University of Manchester. These are the highlights. I will shape my blogs in this way until the first Read more [...]
This is Subrina. She cuts my hair . The afro has gone. But it went the day before a BBC broadcast 'Portrait of.." (click pic) In which I have an Afro. The portrait is in The Foundling Museum This Read more [...]
"The Listening Post" was commissioned by 14-18 NOW: World War One centenerary art commissions and performed at the National Commemoration of the Centenerary of the Battle of the Somme in Heaton Read more [...]
More of the above later. It's two weeks since 228 days. I begin in beautiful Cornwall at The Charles Causeley Festival. I love reading poems on stage . It doesn't matter where I am or if it's a big event Read more [...]
Thankyou for your comments. My light switched back on May 4th as you know. So let's crack on. Here are some glimpses of what's been happening over the last seventeen days since May 16th. It begins Read more [...]
It's two hundred and eleven days since my installation in the ceremonial role of Chancellor of University of Manchester. The last blog marked the first one hundred days since my installation. This Read more [...]
On stage at the launch of the the film Suffragette alongside Helen Pankhurst. Speaking at the student Union at University of Manchester. Speaking to 600 trainee teachers at University Place at Read more [...]