David Hepworth's blog

My parents believed in a few key things: family, arithmetic, the benefits of fresh air, the enduring value of Marks & Spencer. They ...

Writing in The Times today about the bad behaviour of parents at children's football matches Rick Broadbent says  (£): it remains a m...

This is quite something. It's a 1964 interview with Katie Morter, a mill girl from Manchester who married Percy at the beginning of t...

When Kate Bush last played live she was a commercial and artistic sensation. She was a hot ticket at the time but nothing like as hot a tick...

High Maintenance is different. I would say revolutionary but that would probably put you off. It's sort of a TV show but since it'...

You can't call for a substitute in the world of big rock and roll tours. There's never a sign in the foyer saying "Mick Jagge...

I love the Internet. I read State of Emergency: The Way We Were: Britain, 1970-1974  by Dominic Sandbrook. He quotes quite a lot from Regg...

Somebody said the internet is twenty-five years old today. Funny that because tonight I'm taking part in a charity quiz and I was just l...

Mark Ellen, Fraser Lewry and I got together yesterday at Fraser's place. We'd been talking about doing a podcast for ages. Largely...

The easiest things for the BBC to cut are the things the chattering classes don't rush to defend. This looks as if it's going to be ...

Went to the PPA's New Talent Awards , which recognises young people working in the magazine business. Most of them would have been und...

I can remember being introduced to the board game Diplomacy in the early 70s. It was based on the map of Europe in the late 19th century; it...

A friend found this picture of me and Mark Ellen in the BBC archive. It was taken in Golden Square. Mark says it was autumn 1982. That's...

I'm recording a programme with Johnnie Walker this week and one of the records we're talking about is Barbra Streisand's "S...

I watched a lot of rugby this weekend. BT Sport’s coverage of the Aviva Premiership seems pretty good to me. On the other hand I find the ...

I rarely feel like watching any of the contemporary films in Netflix. I tend to choose TV series or old films. In the second category I watc...

We never think our parents are entirely real. We go from depending on them when we’re young to patronising them when we’re teenagers to ...

Amused by this story of the Yorkshireman who broke out of his prison near Preston because it was full of Lancashire and Liverpool people. I...

Generally speaking foreign managers working in the Premier League speak better English than the British ones. It's only when they have t...

I know Harry Nilsson's records well but I didn't join the dots of his personal life until I saw Who Is Harry Nilsson (and why is e...