Apr 15, 2009 | Features
Only recently found the manuscript of this short story which was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2000. It was inspired by a story I read in my youth, ‘A Tale of Terror’ by the British writer Thomas Hood, first published in ‘The London Magazine’, 1821 Richard found...
Apr 14, 2009 | Features
The London ‘Times’ journalist, Kevin Maher, interviewed me for a feature on how the Troubles have been depicted on film. His feature was published on April 11th and can be read here in full. REBIRTH OF THE REEL IRA Do films on the Troubles illuminate or just...
Apr 10, 2009 | Latest
9th April. Finished my children’s story, ‘Bradbury’s Place’, which is about a fat cat that has to go on a diet. It is probably far too ‘fat’ at 4,500 words. 8th April. Finished reading ‘Franz Schubert – A Biography’ by Elizabeth Norman McKay. 6th April....
Apr 10, 2009 | Features
“Few know the secret of love” was a poem by the mystical poet Novalis which Schubert set to music. Although it is a setting of religious music I think the implicit sadness of the lyrics apply to Schubert who died a bachelor and whose illness precluded any meaningful...
