David Hepworth's blog

 .....they didn’t tell the management.  I don’t mean Klopp or Guardiola.  I mean the people who manage the business of these clubs day to da...

There's a good new edition of Matthew Bannister's podcast "Folk On Foot" in which he accompanies Richard Thompson as he re...

I haven't learnt a foreign language during the pandemic but I have finally read  "A Dance To The Music Of Time" by Anthony Pow...

I just heard that Mike Appleton has died. Mike's the guy second from the right in the back row, alongside Robyn Hitchcock, Trevor Da...

Last Monday we recorded interviews with Pete Paphides and Dan Franklin about their books. Both interviews are published as podcasts righ...

Fraser's worked some everyday magic and now all the Word podcasts are on Spotify. That means you can follow this lin...

Following the death of Ginger Baker I asked on Twitter if there were any famous drummers left. People replied with their nominations. ...

When I visited Italy a year ago to publicise my book my excellent translator was Seba Pezzani. Seba helps run...

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...