Blog posts tagged "Channel 4"

July 23, 2010 10:13 am 25 Comments

The fact is that you need to be entering the scoring area with some speed before you hurl the ball.

April 23, 2009 2:12 pm No Comments

You tend to think he was just very fat and went through a monstrous quantity of wives. But Henry VIII was a much bigger man than all that. I’ve just emerged from the utterly fantastic Henry VIII exhibition at the British Library – a place far too many people have never been. I would never [...]

March 23, 2009 11:20 am 6 Comments

This weekend in our village in the country we buried Nicko Henderson – Sir Nicholas Henderson, formerly HM ambassador to Warsaw, Bonn, Paris and Washington. The little Saxon church – one of only 20 buildings in the hamlet in which we each had homes – seats perhaps 45 people. We got more than a hundred [...]

March 16, 2009 4:38 pm 18 Comments

There is something shocking about seeing yourself as your mother, peering out of a national daily. Yes, folks. I have been cross-dressing. Again. Actually, I think I last cross-dressed when I was 16 and appearing in Ring Round the Moon, by Jean Anouilh, at school.

March 2, 2009 10:43 am No Comments

As a child I only ever received one prize – for reading aloud. I got a brown covered copy of Great Expectations. Winning one at the TV news and current affairs ‘do’ the other night was as exciting. Yet there is something embarrassing too to be honoured by your peers. You feel that it is [...]

February 23, 2009 6:18 pm No Comments

I’ve sat down for a good long interview with David Cameron today. The interesting thing about interviewing people at irregular intervals is that you see how they’ve changed.