One of the questions I’m asked most commonly after a performance is’ how did you become a storyteller?‘ I think I’ve…

‘The sea about Athos is very full of monsters who seized and devoured the drowning Persians.” So observed Herodotus in…

In the sea of words that is the internet, a writer can feel quite lost. I found myself turning out…

So way back in the 1930’s when Alekhine was the world chess champion, having recently defeated the great Capablance for…

What does it take for us to risk our lives in defence of what we value? We’ve seen protesters in…

One man’s forlorn message to the world, painted on concrete and lasting for years.

I was walking down the street some time ago and I heard a man explain to his son: “You see,…

[Listen to my tribute song to William Blake] “To see a world in a grain of sand And a heaven…

I spend much of my life thinking about what my last words should be and for an epitaph that will make people laugh when they walk past my cheap gravestone.