Rapscallion Magazine Feature: pooped on by a pigeon, bitten by mosquitoes and stopped by border control – a week in Italy and selfie heaven
He looked at me long and hard. Was I an international criminal or just some old bloke on his holidays…
Rapscallion Magazine Campaign News: blogger detained for championing human rights in Egypt remains in jail despite pressure from British MPs
By Harry Mottram: A human rights activist and blogger remains in prison in Egypt despite pressure from the British Government…
Rapscallion Magazine Campaign News: Russian playwright and theatre director await sentence
By Harry Mottram: A theatre director and playwright have been arrested in Russia and accused of “justifying terrorism” for their…
Rapscallion Magazine Book Review: the dark underbelly of American society is exposed in Barbara Kingsolver’s Demon Copperhead – the white trash of the Appalachians
Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver White trash, trailer homes, foster farms and drug fuelled early deaths, Demon Copperhead is not…
Rapscallion Magazine Feature: Kidderminster, Sheffield and drying bras – a stay with students when supper was peanut butter on toast – this was England in the year of the 1976 drought
Part two of Harry Mottram’s cycle ride to Scotland at a dig at Threave Castle when the UK looked like…
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 –…
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…
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…
Rapscallion Magazine TV Review: director Jon S. Baird and John Preston’ script create a tragically comical, and comically tragic Stonehouse – the missing MP
TV Review: Stonehouse, broadcast on ITV in three episodes on January 2-4, 2023.I would guess that pretty much everyone has…