David Hepworth's blog

Even when I've really enjoyed a book, there's still some relief when I get to the end. I immediately want to swap that book's w...

Too many podcasts are either re-purposed radio or newspapers read aloud. Elvis Costello's the First Ten Years , is the best podcast I...

Dandy editor Craig Graham said: "Following extensive research, we discovered The Dandy readers were struggling to schedule a weekly com...

Here's a Miss Teen America contestant floundering badly while answering a question. I have some sympathy for her because she's so ba...

Yesterday the media went back to work after its summer break. By lunchtime my phone was ringing off the hook with broadcasters wanting a com...

Some of the papers are saying that the Rolling Stones tour that just finished was their last. Others are claiming that they will go on, if n...

I'm grateful to Kat's Karavan for the chance to hear again John Peel presenting "Night Ride" in 1969. If memory serves, t...

An old friend rang me up yesterday to pass on this story: There's a man browsing in a record shop when he comes across a record called ...

Between putting a few old adversaries back in their boxes and making it pretty clear he wasn't planning to move to Salford Quays, Jeremy...

Over at Andrew Collins's blog he's been bemoaning the superficiality of the BBC "British Film Forever" series. I caught f...

I have a theory that match commentators actually see and hear less than we do at home. How else to explain the hopeless performance of John...

"Skymag is designed with the ABC1 woman in mind," said the Sky director of communications, Christian Cull. "A typical reader ...

First thing today I received an email from a PR. It was clearly sent to hundreds, if not thousands, of media contacts. The opening line was ...

At the height of his celebrity and success, in the early 60s, the playwright Arthur Miller fathered a Down syndrome child. The baby was ...

Twice last night I was confronted with an expensive-looking trail for a new BBC show called "The Restaurant" in which a room full...

I've become fascinated by the minutiae of Nick Lowe's recent songs, by the way he's managed to pare his writing back to the poin...

We'd been pursuing Bill Deedes for Word to the Wise ever since Word launched. It had to be postponed for a variety of reasons, all of ...

The sad news of the death of Tony Wilson reaches me in my hammock in Brittany. Only about 18 months ago he and I spent the day driving aroun...

One of the interesting side effects of the ban on smoking in pubs is the kind of people it suddenly puts on the street. In Islington there ...

Today I sat in the garden and re-read Clive James's "Unreliable Memoirs" , which was originally published in the early 80s. It...