My first client as a speechwriter was Peter Sutherland, when he was Chairman of BP. I was summoned to his office for a 15 minute interview. During that interview he rummaged in his desk drawer and got out his commonplace book.
How the urge to collect can become a powerful creative tool
ENGAGE BRAIN
– How to record, retrieve and remember what inspires you
(rather than settling for digital oblivion)
Date of Publication: 3 May 2022
Pages: 24
Publisher: UK Speechwriters’ Guild
ISBN: 9780956322654
40 Years On: Social Change in a Wiltshire Village
In the summer of 2021, I went back to the village I left in September 1980. We went on a family holiday in a cottage next to the school I used to go to. I remembered Hilmarton in the pre-Thatcherite era. This was a chance to see how 40 years of history had changed where I grew up.