May 7th Sunday. Within The Sunday Times Rich List is The Alternative Rich List. I am honoured to be included. Click here for alternative Rich List Others includ David Attenborough, Vivienne Read more [...]
"If I tree falls in the forest and nobody blogs about it then did it fall?" So says Stik. Here's some highlights of the past ten days. Manchester Wednesday 26th April 8am. Whenever a student Read more [...]
On BBC Radio 4 I take a look at foster children and children in care in popular culture, contrasting their treatment with those in the real world. I'm interested in what you think. My favourites are Read more [...]
Tonight in London (24th April) The Moth Podcast launch ALL THESE WONDERS. It is a book of Moth Podcast stories with a forward by yours truly. The previous Moth included a forward by Neil Gaiman so Read more [...]
A seven hour flight on Ethiopian Airlines. I am here in Addis for four days. It's MONDAY.. Meseret meets me at the airport. Meseret iis my friend from The ECA. The first thing to do is check Read more [...]
The artists in this blog have all been fostered adopted or in children's homes. I know them all. Their success, I believe, is in spite of what happened to them and not because of it. Read more [...]
The report will be at The Royal Court on April 30th. It came about because of my blog on March 20th. In 18 days a team came together: a director, a producer, an actor and a theatre. Tickets Read more [...]
Every three months since the day I was born and for the subsequent 18 years my every movement was recorded. As my friend Jenni Fagan wrote in Panopticon “I was an experiment”. I received the files Read more [...]
Thankyou for your kind responses to my last blog. By the end of the coming week I'll be able to share the venue, the time and the date. The director is John McGrath . I am in Hull right Read more [...]