Twelve British cover versions of Buddy Holly songs, selected by ALWYN TURNER. Continue reading
Author Archives: Alwyn Turner
History cops: The Mind of Mr J. G. Reeder
‘I have a criminal mind.’ ALWYN TURNER on the TV version of Edgar Wallace’s investigator J. G. Reeder, ‘a Jazz Age Columbo’. Continue reading
Sherlock on screen
Who was the best Sherlock Holmes? There’s only one way to find out. ALWYN TURNER watches ten versions of The Hound of the Baskervilles. Continue reading
1977: the album
From Bryan Ferry to Roogalator, ALWYN TURNER compiles an album’s worth of singles from 1977. Continue reading
Have you heard… Alan Price
ALWYN TURNER celebrates the mid-1970s solo work of ex-Animal Alan Price. Continue reading
Bill Oddie
ALWYN TURNER on Bill Oddie and the making of ‘The Funky Gibbon’. Continue reading
Sutch is life
ALWYN TURNER confesses to having written the Official Monster Raving Loony Party manifesto for Screaming Lord Sutch. Continue reading
Keir Starmer: an obituary
As another prime minister bites the dust, ALWYN TURNER bids a less than fond farewell. Continue reading
‘I could whip you’: the Falklands War
ALWYN TURNER on the political and cultural fall-out from the Falklands War, from Alan Bennett to Del-Boy. Continue reading
‘Hard as nails’: Ann Widdecombe
An extract from ALWYN TURNER’s book ‘A Classless Society’, on Ann Widdecombe in the 1990s. Continue reading
Referendum: Ten years after
Was it all about the Empire? ALWYN TURNER on the Brexit referendum, a decade after the fact. Continue reading
Andy Burnham: a football man
Andy Burnham, as seen by ALWYN TURNER in 2015. Continue reading
