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It's Monday so here's my Financial Times pod column on Half-Life, a beautiful written and produced story of wartime trauma, dark family secrets and radioactive toothpaste. ft.com/content/1a20c5…

I wrote about what Attenborough means to us and the impossible question of who should replace him. (Answer: not Tom Hanks) independent.co.uk/arts-entertain…

A day late, but here's my Financial Times pod column on Chasing the Sound, a smart and sweeping new podcast telling stories about music from around the globe, written and hosted by the mega-talented Kirk Flash ft.com/content/148453…

In The i Paper, I interviewed Isabel Allende – novelist, philanthropist, now a Mattel doll – about war, Trump, writing & family. The headline refers to the only time she saw her father, a scene that influenced her new book My Name is Emilia Del Valle inews.co.uk/culture/books/…

In today's The i Paper, I met Adam Buxton and we chatted about podcasts, parents, professional rivalries, writing a second memoir and his beloved dog, Rosie. He was delightful. inews.co.uk/culture/books/…

It's Monday so here's my Financial Times pod column on The Smuggler, an eye-opening new BBC series about the business of human cargo and featuring the testimony of "Nick", a builder-turned-people trafficker. ft.com/content/a125c7…

Brighton friends! I will be hosting a Q&A with Genesse P-Orridge following the Brighton screening of S/He Is Still Her/E, Montana' remarkable documentary charting the life and times of the late Genesis P-Orridge. Sunday 15th June at the Duke of York's cinema. Come along!

It's Monday so here's my Financial Times pod column on the new celeb interview series Rylan: How To Be in Love, which confirms its host as an interviewer par excellence. The conversation with Self Esteem, in particular, is brilliant. ft.com/content/d978d1…

For The Independent, I wrote a tribute to the genius that was Brian Wilson, who I met in 2004 and about whom you can glean much from the song "I Just Wasn't Made for These Times". Musically, he existed on a higher plane yet spiritually he couldn’t find peace independent.co.uk/arts-entertain…

A day late but here's my Financial Times pod column on The Wargame, a new pod which gathers together ex-cabinet ministers and security and defence experts to simulate a military attack. Two episodes in and it hasn't gone well. Let's hope Putin isn't listening, eh? ft.com/content/c19a74…

Dua Lipa and the problem with the celebrity #BookClub mafia Comment piece by Fiona Sturges independent.co.uk/arts-entertain…

A day late (again!) but here's my Financial Times column on a new pod that traces the history of the Ponzi scheme back to Charles Ponzi, an Italian-American who masterminded a scam involving postal coupons, stealing the equivalent of $250mn from investors. ft.com/content/c41b45…

In The Independent, I had an incredibly wide-ranging chat with the absolute legend that is Gloria Estefan. We talked Trump, Castro, her father's disappearance, her experience of child sexual abuse - and why "Conga" is the greatest of the Estebangers 💥 independent.co.uk/arts-entertain…

It's Monday so here's my Financial Times pod column on a new Radiotopia Presents series, We're Doing The Wiz. It's about a high school music and a community's reckoning over race in small-town Massachusetts. ft.com/content/94de3d…

Audiobook of the week in the Guardian! Thank you ⁦Fiona Sturges⁩ Street-Level Superstar: A Year With Lawrence by Will Hodgkinson audiobook review – indie pop’s ultimate underdog theguardian.com/books/2025/jul…

It's Monday's so here's my Financial Times pod column on the blessed return of Alan Partridge. ft.com/content/1f54d1…