David Hepworth's blog

Henry Worsley's last message is a rare episode in the narrative of human accomplishment. It's not often we get to hear the sound of...

The first album by The Eagles in 1972 took a long time to finish because David Geffen, who managed them and was their record company boss, w...

If you're the kind of person who complains about too many repeats on TV, you're watching too much TV. Anything worth repeating was...

  War and Peace debuted on BBC TV the other night in a standard Andrew Davies adaptation. All the characters had to be introduced right at t...

In 1989 I interviewed Jeffrey Katzenberg. At the time he was a senior executive at Disney where he was spearheading their move back into an...

I got a Bose ® SoundLink Bluetooth Speaker III  for Christmas, with which I am well pleased. Since my phone is the player most of the time ...

Reading a novel set in the American Civil War the other day I belatedly realised the significance of the lyric of Nancy Sinatra's ...

Thirty-five years ago today I was woken by the news John Lennon had been murdered. It's difficult to think back to that time when he w...

The Media Show interviews the TV producer Natalka Znak about how come "I'm A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here" continues to appea...

I don't follow boxing but couldn't escape knowing there was a big fight last night between Klitschko and Fury. The hype was all over...

ISIS will eventually be subdued by some combination of carrot and stick. They won't be the last of the new super bogeymen.   All the ...

Enjoying Aziz Ansari's new Netflix series "Master of None" , which couldn't be more contemporary. The choice of music – ...

There is an item on the New York Times about a demonstration taking place at the University of Missouri. In the clip a student journalist...

Now that music's out there in the cloud, rather than over there on your shelf, it's harder than ever to decide what you feel like ...

Our house was on an unmade road that finished in a farmer's field. Every year we built a bonfire in that field. For a few Saturday...

There were two girls on the tube this afternoon. 17 or 18 years old, I would guess. Sisters, I would hazard. They were both fully occupied...

Went to the recording of the Media Show's debate on the future of the BBC, chaired in exemplary fashion by Steve Hewlett. It's here...

American publisher wants to know what I mean by "digging out an away point". Fair cop. It's a book about music after all. Am...

Always preferred the concept of the Grateful Dead to the sound of them. I tried their albums over the years and could never get past the b...