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Well he is the closest English football has to an Old Testament prophet: Sir Geoff Hurst still going strong in Amazon's religious history of Christianity chart.

News for any Victoria Wood fans who are still here. I'm fronting an ep of Archive on 4 that will unveil audio gems I discovered while researching Let's Do It. None has ever been broadcast before. TX 14/12. Repeat 25/12. More info here: bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

Loose Chippings, my trawl through Victoria Wood’s unheard audio gems for Archive on 4, is on tomorrow night, bang opposite Strictly. I’ve written about it for The Times and The Sunday Times. What I learnt when I found Victoria Wood’s secret diary tapes… thetimes.com/article/e0842d…

I’ve never written a radio programme before and I’m so lucky to have been produced by David, who was an exec on dinnerladies and is a true radio ninja. The brilliant title is his.

Oh sod propriety, I’m QTing this

Loose Chippings, my episode of Archive on 4 unveiling Victoria Wood's unheard songs, stand-up and audio diary, is on BBC Sounds now. It's repeated on Christmas Day, and includes a little seasonal offering from VW and Julie Walters bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…

Loose Chippings is on Radio 4 again at 8pm on Christmas Day, handily finishing just as Gavin and Stacey begins...

New episode of our @Heroesandhumans podcast just dropped: on Geoff Hurst, last boy of 1966 - the one day of his life that everyone ever asks him about, and beyond, plus how he met Bobby Moore, and the story of their generation. Mehreen Khan and I discuss megaphone.link/SPECIALPROJECT…

Archie Thomas, aged 15, died 40 years ago today. This is what happened to his memorial bench.

Eisenhower: ‘Do you own a suit?’ Churchill: ‘No. But Trump just put my portrait back in the Oval Office.’

We don't need no copyright violation. Hey! Meta! Leave them books alone. Including mine. I signed this Change.org petition urging Lisa Nandy MP to hold MZ's feet to the flame over Meta's flagrant theft of copyright to train up its AI models chng.it/fGQbym4jzY

Seriously the loveliest bookshop in west London. If local, or even if not, do please consider signing this petition to save Hammersmith's Amnesty UK Bookshop #books #reading chng.it/9TwCng9D7g via Change.org UK

I am ever so thrilled to reveal that I'm writing Michael Gambon: The Authorised Biography, to be published by Century Publishing in Oct 2026. Here's a lovely unseen photo of him in his handsome youth. The book will, I hope, contain many such surprises. Info: bit.ly/4kHHFoy

Penguin Random House (Penguin Books UK) imprint Century has acquired Michael Gambon: The Authorised Biography by Jasper Rees , a "major and definitive portrait of one of the greatest actors of the last 50 years" 👇 ebx.sh/B8tkrJ

Theatre lovers of #Essex! The world famous play ifoundmyhorn from the world famous book by Jasper Rees starring world famous Jonathan Guy Lewis about the redeeming power of classical music will play Colchester July 31st/August 1st! Do not miss! Book here: mercurytheatre.co.uk/event/i-found-…

"I’m quite often poking people in the ribs." I interviewed the remarkable artist Lucy Jones for Independent Arts about her self-portraits on at Flowers Gallery the-independent.com/arts-entertain…

More fun than doom-scrolling is reading the prescient 1-star reviews of The Salt Path on Amazon - as much an indictment of the publishing industry as of the author! They proliferated after The Observer broke the news, but some readers saw through it as soon as they read it.