In a small bar in lower Manhattan last night, an Australian singer-songwriter showed me just what great story telling is all about. Paul Kelly has written a lot of songs in the past 30 years – and over two nights he’s playing a slection of them …. in alphabetical order. He made me cry three times (or…
…or what I did on my vacation, Part 2 I’ve always found the story of the Manhattan project fascinating – this ultra-secret project developed on an isolated plateau in New Mexico. It was known as ‘Project Y”. It all sounds like something out of a movie, but it was very real and it really did…
My head is full of the strangest facts – and it’s all my parents’ fault. When I was a kid, they brought a never-ending stream of books into the house. The types of books were often surprising – I think a lot of the time my parents got them because they were cheap (we didn’t…