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I recently took part in the ‘Carrie on Talking‘ radio show hosted by Carrie Frais in Barcelona – a sort of Desert Island Discs. I had to choose 8 songs that have had an impact on my life. I didn’t know what to expect, but I actually found it quite an emotional thing to do. Have a listen, if you’re interested …
Belated post … this is The Weekly Noticias show No.17, broadcast on 25 July 2018 on MetroFM in Barcelona. We return this evening (Weds 19 Sept) for Show No.18, which will also be broadcast on Madrid City Council‘s public radio station, M21 on 20 Sept. More news on all this to follow. Watch this space … Video &…
My last blog about stand-up comedy was supposed to have been exactly that: my last blog about stand-up comedy. It was also an attempt to start writing up my ‘diary experiences’ from Edinburgh. An attempt to close the chapter on my attempt at stand-up comedy. But last week I was persuaded to do 5 minutes…
Here’s a link below to the podcast of Show No.5 of The Weekly Noticias, hosted by me and broadcast on Weds 21st June 2017 on Radio Kanal Barcelona, with guests Xavier Castells, Chris Groves, Frida Palsson, Fred Fairbrass from ‘Right Said Fred‘, Jon Groves & Viveka Nilsson. In between alot of I’m-Too-Sexy banter between our Swedish Bond-girl and pop-icon guests, questions also come up about Emmanuel Macron, Mariano…
A murder. A kidnapping. A lost Salvador Dalí painting. Just 36 hours to resolve all three. I’m delighted to announce the publication of my new book, ‘The Barcelona Connection’, a fast-paced crime-thriller sprinkled with black comedy. Planned as the first in a series of books about an art detective, the book is also in development as…
Just when you’re thinking ‘thank God that 2020 is all over’, along comes day six of 2021 in the shape of a bare-chested, face-painted freak wearing horns and what look like two dead raccoons on his head, prancing around inside the US Congress with hundreds, if not thousands of other white supremacists wearing red ‘MAGA’…
My starting salary at Condé Nast’s Vogue in London in November 1978 (aged 18) was £2,500 per annum, plus, crucially, “luncheon vouchers to the value of 60p per day”. I was reminded of the luncheon vouchers whilst watching the first part of the documentary Absolutely Fashion: Inside British Vogue (BBC2), having finally caught up with…