04 Mar 2014

My teacher Christopher Jefferies, wrongly arrested for the murder of Joanna Yeates in Bristol, gave an excellent talk last week on the British media. At the time I was astonished... read more

20 Oct 2013

I didn’t realise how moving it would be to see clothes from Tudor times which are now on display at a wonderful exhibition of Elizabethan’s at the National Portrait Gallery.... read more

08 Jul 2013

It was only today as I sat on a bench overlooking Sydney Opera House and the Harbour Bridge that it occurred to me that over the weekend BSC has been... read more

28 Apr 2013

I love it when my stupidity is revealed in all its glory. I went to Kingston yesterday to see PROPELLER’s production of Twelfth Night (incidentally a classic case in my... read more

11 Apr 2013

Interesting! Once again it feels like the entire audience are committed fans who have seen the show fifty times, as everyone is falling about laughing/cheering before the lights have come... read more

09 Apr 2013

I’m finding the exhaustive discussions about Margaret Thatcher very interesting, because in essence it’s a discussion about Britain over the last forty years – who we are, how we got... read more

07 Apr 2013

It’s happened again! Alison Fitzjohn and I have been performing BARMY BRITAIN since May last year. We have learnt a huge amount since those first performances and the learning continues:... read more

07 Apr 2013

Nearly five years after the crash, we are being urged by some quarters to stop bashing the bankers. The men (and they are mostly men) who brought the world to... read more

23 Mar 2013

I’ve just returned from a fabulous speech given by John Harrison at The Old Rep Theatre, as part of the Birmingham Repertory Theatre’s 100th anniversary. Deprived of their own building... read more

26 Feb 2013

In an article about the incredible Alice Herz-Sommer who I had never heard of before, I was touched by what Stephen Hough wrote about what music can achieve: “To lift... read more