
Simon Akam
@simonakam
Magazine journalist and author. Co-host @takenotesalways. “Always Take Notes: Advice From Some Of The World’s Greatest Writers” available now.
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Great to talk to Marjorie Brennan for this piece about Always Take Notes and thankyou Michael Moynihan for your interest in the podcast

Festive Always Take Notes featuring Philippe Sands


Fascinating new episode of Always Take Notes with top literary agent Clare Alexander... lots of useful advice here as well as some hilarious anecdotes.

Sage advice from Clare Alexander here Always Take Notes

Late to this one but nice to see Always Take Notes in Times Diary again, this time via our interview with Frederick Forsyth. Thanks for the mention Patrick Kidd ... thetimes.com/uk/society/art…


Good as usual from Josiah Gogarty British GQ gq-magazine.co.uk/article/stop-c…

NEW EPISODE: Journalist and author Hannah Barnes (Hannah Barnes) speaks to Simon and Rachel about her book “Time to Think” about the Tavistock’s gender clinic, her work as an investigative journalist at the BBC, and not caring what people think about you. buff.ly/4112JPu



New episode of Always Take Notes with author and Faculty of English academic Clair Wills

Congratulations Sophie Elmhirst! It was our pleasure to interview Sophie in 2020 about her magazine writing, managing multiple commissions at once and covering subjects as diverse as millenial culture and the tampon business: alwaystakenotes.com/episodes/79-so…

NEW EPISODE: Founder of Mill Media Joshi Herrmann Herrmann speaks to Simon and Rachel about how and why we can save local journalism, learning to call people’s bluff, what he learnt from his years as editor-in-chief of the The Tab and more. alwaystakenotes.com/episodes/210-j…

New Always Take Notes with Andrew O'Hagan


New episode of Always Take Notes featuring Ben Macintyre
