The Author Archive Podcast David Freeman

Taylor Swift attracts huge interest in her song lyrics. They are studied as poetry.
Rowland Bagnall is a different sort of poet. Near - Life Experience,  his new collection is just published
When I spoke to him we talked about his poetic motivation and the process of writing these concentrated nuggets of observation.
His replies are thoughtful and enlightening.

Tim Coulson talks about his book which tells the  amazing story of 13.8 billion years of history from the Big Bang to you!
It is a wonderful read - inspiring, gripping and fascinating.
And just a thought .... did a deity have a hand in the story?
Tim explains his view!
 
 

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights was adopted on December 10th 1948.
We now live in a world where the rights agreed in that document are widely ignored and some politicians openly seek to remove the UK from enforcing them.
Plus racial intolerance is on the march . The horrible spectre of antisemitism is looming over the news as is denial of the rights of Palestinians. 
A good time to listen to the words of the late Sir Martin Gilbert.
Sir Martin Gilbert is known as Churchill's biographer, but also as the historian of the Holocaust.
This conversation with David Freeman took place when his book Never Again was published. Sir Martin's thoughts on war are sadly relevant.
Sir Martin died in 2015.

This glorious popular science books tells the story of how black holes that were  thought to be too ridiculous to exist in 1916 had by 1971  been proved to exist.
Einstein thought they were impossible but in 1971 Paul Murdin and Louise Webster discovered the very first black hole, Cygnus X-1
Marcus tells the story of these extraordinary people who discovered that black holes are centre stage in the cosmos. Indeed without black holes it is unlikely that we would exist.
Fasten your seat belts and prepare to be amazed.
A great book for the curious!!
 
 
 

Truddi Chase lived with dissociative identity disorder a condition that used to be called multiple personality disorder.
On the cover of her book the author was named as 'The Troops' - the name she gave to her 90 plus identities.
When I interviewed her she was with her therapist Robert Phillips. The whole story was very difficult to assimilate as you can probably hear.
Truddi died in 2010 but there is a website dedicated to her and her autobiography is still in demand.
It seems that her condition was a result of abuse in her childhood.
A story like no other!

It's Bafta time again.
The winner of the BAFTA for best actor went to Timothy Spall for his performance in 'The Sixth Commandment'.
Timothy played Peter Farquar, a gay Christian teacher who was murdered by a student, Ben Field.
The horrific murder actually happened in the normally peaceful  village of Maids Moreton in Buckinghamshire.
The true story is told by David Wilson who lives in the village in his book 'A Plot to Kill'.
He told David Freeman about it.