Philip Hensher
Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Exeter, Philip Hensher was among Granta 20 Best of Young British Novelists in 2003. The author of six novels, a collection of short stories and an opera libretto, he has won numerous prizes including the Somerset Maugham Award and the Stonewall Journalist of the Year. A regular presence in the British media, alongside his Wednesday column for The Independent, he writes for The Spectator and Mail on Sunday. His latest novel, The Northern Clemency, is published by Fourth Estate.
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Philip Hensher: Too soon to call time on a vintage show
Monday, 7 June 2010
Last Of The Summer Wine: Anyone hearing the news that the BBC’s sitcom Last Of The Summer Wine is to come to an end is going to say one of three things. "Christ, is that crap still going on?", "My gran used to like that crap, after she developed Alzheimers", or "That crap’s the Queen’s favourite programme, apparently."
Philip Hensher: It was secrecy, not privacy, that Laws wanted
Monday, 31 May 2010
There are notoriously no ethnic minority Liberal Democrat MPs, and only one serving peer
Philip Hensher: We the panel hoped to surprise: we even included two painters
Wednesday, 5 May 2010
"Well," a journalist and art-world insider said to me, slightly reprovingly. We were at the breakfast to announce the shortlist for this year's Turner Prize, which I've been judging this year. "Normally I manage to guess at least one artist in advance." I apologised: but secretly I felt rather pleased.
Philip Hensher: Anonymity protects too many critics
Monday, 19 April 2010
Amazon know your real name. Why do they allow their reviewers to post under pseudonyms anyway?
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