Detail from: Eichmann in Court, 11 April 1961, Life magazine, 30 June 1961 © Ronald Searle and the Sayle Literary Agency
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Getting The Joke: Ronald Searle 5 Mar 10
In Russell Davies’s biography of Ronald Searle, he makes some barbed references to British journalists who seem to think that his subject’s work begins and ends with the St Trinian’s drawings... Read More
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Something In The Air: Tim Thorpe 5 Feb 10
Tim Thorpe is 26 – young to be principal of anything – but his musical life already spans 20 years. His is a classic story of falling in love with music, of music springing from almost nowhere at... Read More
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The Business Of Responsibility 8 Jan 10
You could be excused for thinking, by its title, that this piece is about to give you the kind of lecture you got as a child from your parents, in an attempt to help you act as a mature human... Read More
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Mobile Money 8 Jan 10
Ten years ago the internet was still in its infancy. Mobile telephony was in its adolescence. A marriage between the two hadn’t even been considered. Technology has its own mometum, though. By... Read More
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A Song For Christmas 18 Dec 09
In one of my favourite books of the countryside, a 1932 edition of WH Hudson’s Nature in Downland, a woodcut opposite the title page depicts a mistle thrush in a snow scene, ‘singing in weather... Read More
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Chin Up: Margaret Rutherford 20 Nov 09
When Margaret Rutherford stepped forward to audition for a place at the Old Vic drama school in 1925 she found, to her deep embarrassment, that the new pair of shoes she had specially bought for the... Read More
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Seeing Things: Lizzy Duncan 23 Oct 09
Lizzy Duncan has been drawing every day since she was small. It’s both a discipline and a diversion. She spent her childhood in Chorleywood dreaming of making her ideas come alive, and a degree in... Read More
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Living History 9 Oct 09
In its sleepy, old England setting, midway between north Hampshire’s London commuter belt, and the south coast conurbation of Southampton, it’s hard to imagine Winchester as one of the major towns... Read More
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Life On The Cut: Dave Parker 25 Sep 09
You’d think that 20 years as a catalogue photographer – producing someone else’s images, interpreting someone else’s brief – would extinguish anyone’s creative spark… but Oxhey... Read More
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The Patron Saint Of Conservation 11 Sep 09
There can be few British people with an interest in wildlife and the environment, and born in the middle decades of the last century, who were not inspired in some way by Sir Peter Scott. Founding... Read More
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