David Hepworth's blog

Driving down to Bath to take part in a chat about the Beatles with former cabinet minister Alan Johnson and Beatles historian Mark Lewiso...

Not everything that came out in 1967 was bitten by psychedelia. I bought this copy of Scott Walker's first solo LP in the same s...

I watched the whole of the first part of Leaving Neverland . Then I watched the whole of the second part. Finally I watched Oprah Winfrey’s ...

One of the most striking revelations in Andrew Roberts book about Churchill  is how much work he put into every single piece of communicatio...

My new Cyrus CD player (remember those?) recommends that it be 'run in' for 72 hours with a CD on repeat play (at low volu...

I’ve read four volumes of Robert Caro’s epic biography of Lyndon Johnson . The fifth volume hasn’t been finished yet. In the course...

Blurbs on the covers of real-life stories of espionage that invoke the name of John Le Carré too often seem like a devalued currency. ...

Chris Shaw does a podcast called I Am The Egg Pod in which he asks people to talk about a Beatles or Beatles-related record. I was too late...

I came to George Beardmore's "Civilians At War" after Kate Atkinson credited it as a source for her own "Transcription...

The Monica Lewinsky/Bill Clinton scandal was just over twenty years ago. Listening to Slow Burn , the podcast devoted to recounting it, I r...

Our guests at Word In Your Ear this week, Mark King and Mark Kermode, have the same initials and play the same instrument. You can hear bot...

Ma'am Darling , Craig Brown's book about Princess Margaret, is a simple idea, brilliantly done. Everybody who ever met Princess Ma...

I can't say I'd taken much notice of Alvin Stardust before yesterday, when I read that his son, the Headmaster of Reigate Grammar Sc...

I've only just discovered Schitt's Creek, the Canadian comedy devised by Eugene Levy and his son Daniel and I love it. The Schit...

Obviously top athletes have bodies that don't work the way ours do. But what interests me is how their brains must be wired differently ...

I like the story about the young novelist, still waiting tables, who approached Philip Roth, proffering a copy of his newly-published first ...

Last night I was in Belfast talking about Uncommon People in a pub called The Dark Horse at the Cathedral Quarter Festival . After we...

I had fun last night talking about "Uncommon People" at the Wanstead Tap . In fact it was the world premiere of my magic lanter...

I left school after my A-levels in the summer of 1968. I hadn't been back since. When, in recent years, I'd been up in Yorkshire v...

Perugia's an ancient hilltop city in Umbria. Every year it's taken over by the International Journalism Festival. Hundreds of you...