Words + Images + Performances
Book Review: Birnham Wood. By Eleanor Catton (pictured – credit the Scotsman) A bit like digging a new vegetable patch…
It all began with a copy of the Radio Times. Harry Mottram saw an advert for a cheap week in…
By Harry Mottram: Welcome to the 19th century, remade in the 21st century when the great powers feel entitled to…
By Harry Mottram: All I wanted was to get a photograph of Hinkley Point C from the public footpath along…
By Harry Mottram: I picked up the piece of paper on Brean Down by the fort. It was a shopping…
Radio Review: BBC Archive on 4 programme Anthony Blunt: A Question of Retribution? By Harry Mottram: It’s not everyday you…
By Harry Mottram: Not only a lost age for graphics but a lost age for many offices and studios when…
Book Review: The Inseparables, by Simone de Beauvoir Do you believe in God? The question is one of the themes…
Goalkeeping and dodgy goalies, By Harry Mottram As Joe Royle once said, “all goalkeepers are mad.” Nobody except a fool,…
Radio Review: Evelyn Waugh – Put Out More Flags There’s something very louche in Anthony Valentine’s voice as Basil Seal…