“First stop, Papua New Guinea, where I got a job as a plantation manager – at age 20 – and ‘lik lik doctor’ (basic paramedic, fixer of machete slashes, snake bites and ulcerated sores).”
Read More“the head cats are at it, the jive is on, they’re in a groove”
Read More“when Mark Antony drank horse piss”
Read More“the name Kensington, it may well be the best, the most appropriate London placename of them all”
Read More“Hampstead is London’s skybox… from there they could see forever”
Read More“those little visuals can help us to unlock the history and the way an area has developed”
Read More“dogs, cocks, pianofortes and insipid men”
Read MoreWhy are fish and chips no longer wrapped in newspaper sheets? They discovered that the ink was carcinogenic.
Read More“the English influences on his work were extratordinary”
Read More“the London Walks guide who sounds like – when he wants to – legendary American sports announcer Howard Cosell”
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