Rapscallion Magazine Feature: Cider, cigarettes and Letraset… confessions of a 70s art student
By Harry Mottram: One pint of cider for 30p and you began to slur your words. Three pints and it was…
Rapscallion Magazine Feature: a day in Paris to check my new passport won’t get me deported like last time – but it was disappointing as there were no riots or piles of rubbish in the streets
By Harry Mottram: Last September I was deported from Rome as my passport was officially stolen – now with a…
Rapscallion Magazine Feature: like George Orwell I took The Road to Wigan Pier but it wasn’t there
I went to Wigan Pier but it wasn’t there. Not a barge in sight, nobody loading coal, or men wearing…
Rapscallion Magazine Feature: cider, cigarettes and Letraset… confessions of a 70s art student
By Harry Mottram: One pint of cider for 30p and you began to slur your words. Three pints and it was…
Rapscallion Magazine: stuck between heaven and hell without a passport – my 36 Hours in Rome’s Airport
The lost souls of Rome’s airport As I walked out into the cool night air at Bristol Airport, I felt…
Rapscallion Magazine Feature: don’t shoot the critic – it’s only an opinion – stories of vicious attacks on the writers of reviews (including me)
By Harry Mottram: Reports from Germany this month that ballet director Marco Goecke had smeared dog excrement in the face of…
Rapscallion Magazine Feature: the weird night a stranger walked into our house and went to sleep in my our son’s bed – but it wasn’t a Goldilocks and the Three Bears story as the police arrived
By Harry Mottram: It will be 20 years this April since BBC Radio 4’s Today programme led with the strange…
Rapscallion Magazine Feature: My long night with posh Tory wife and diarist Sasha Swire (while her husband WATCHED)
This article was written a few years ago about how I spent election night in 2015 as as reporter for…
Rapscallion Magazine Feature: conquest of Ben Nevis with my sister – a very British ascent with cheese sandwiches, Gulab Jamun sweets, missing chocolate, the misnamed Halfway Loch, precipitous paths and er… the Poo Rock
Wet, bedraggled and miserable: not us but one of the first couples coming down the mountain as we struggled up…
Rapscallion Magazine Radio Review: The nasally voice with its Texas-lite accent that makes sense of MAGA and USA politics
Radio Review: Americast, BBC Radio 4 During the strange period of recent American history when Donald Trump was president and…