Rapscallion Magazine: the weird night a stranger walked into our Axbridge home and went to sleep – the story as recorded in this BBC Radio 5Live interview at the time
By Harry Mottram: It will be 20 years this April since BBC Radio 4’s Today programme led with the strange story…
Rapscallion Magazine Football Archive: interview with the Bristol Casuals back in the day
In 1997 Chris Badley and Harry Mottram spoke to BBC Radio Bristol about the newly formed Bristol Casuals League –…
ICSM News: property giant Evergrande’s bankruptcy protection threatens not only China’s economy but could hit the UK as confidence in the world’s number two economy plummets
By Harry Mottram: China may be the world’s number two economy, but few economists believe the statistics published by Beijing on…
Bath Voice News: the hill top green paradise in the city approaches its third anniversary run by a public interest company for the community
AUGUST 17, 2023 By Harry Mottram: In just a few weeks time the not-for-profit Community Interest Company (FLHF) of Lyncombe Hill…
Strawberry Line Times Feature: when Italian soldiers were prisoners of war in Somerset
Somerset has been enriched by immigrants since the year dot. Although it’s Syrians, Afghans, Ukrainians and Sudanese immigrants who make…
Bath Voice News: two very different concepts for the future rugby stadium – a pragmatic design from the club met with underwhelming support or the Roman colosseum design championed by many but would send costs spiralling
AUGUST 14, 2023 By Harry Mottram: It’s the story that’s set public opinion alight this summer amongst those with a passion…
Rapscallion Magazine Feature: canal paths, skinny dippers and Macbeth – with added punctures and insect bites on a Somerset to London cycle ride – and our closest ape relatives giving me the cold shoulder
By Harry Mottram: Rain, rain and more rain this summer. And then Carol Kirkwood on BBC’s Breakfast programme announced there…
Axbridge Book Review: Holly Jackson’s A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder (and soon to be a BBC3 series) is an unfeasible but highly enjoyable and neatly plotted whodunnit about schoolgirl Pip who uses blackmail, bluff and burglary to bring a murderer to justice
Book Review: A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder, by Holly Jackson. Sex, drugs and murder. Yes, Holly Jackson’s young adult…
Rapscallion Magazine Radio Review: Jane and Serge and the hit record Je t’aime… that created a wave of snogging in the Fifth Form Common Room and was banned by the Vatican and the BBC
Radio Review: I first became aware of Jane Birkin in a 1967 copy of King Magazine that my sister Kath…
Bath Voice: prestigious architect offers a very different design for the proposed new Bath Rugby Stadium slamming the club’s ideas as ‘lowering the tone of the whole area’ and believing Bath can do better rather than ‘wrecking the Rec’
JULY 31, 2023 By Harry Mottram: First things first – Bath Rugby Club and in particular its stadium or rather ground…