Just a quick blog to update readers on The Travel Book Club. The first show airs tonight at 9pm and is repeated in the week: Monday 1 April (April Fool’s Day!) at 9pm – Repeated: Tuesday at 10am Friday at 7:30pm Saturday at 2:30pm Sunday at 8pm Tonight (and repeated in the week) we are [...]
We recorded the first four episodes of The Travel Book Club a few weeks ago and I am reliably informed that it will be airing early April. I have had a sneak preview of the first episode where myself and the panel review Bill Bryson’s Down Under. The discussion got quite animated (!) as these [...]
This week I am busily genning up on a host of great travel books. Sometimes I have to pinch myself at how much fun my job is! Yep, starting next Thursday I will be recording a series for Sky 284 (Holiday and Cruise Channel) called The Travel Book Club. It combines two of my main [...]
Here is the link to the chat we did on Woman’s Hour on being addicted to our Smartphones and the concept of FOMO…yikes, guilty m’lud!! Collette on Radio 4 – Woman’s Hour with Jenny Murray recently here Here’s a quick clip and the full interview will be on my Audioboo page asap – I’ve finally [...]
I will be on BBC 5 Live later (Tony Livesey Show) chatting about a new report on the increase in the use of hand-to-paper diaries among teenage girls. I have kept a diary from about the age of 12-13 and, over 25 years on, I now keep a much-loved bedside journal that I simply cannot [...]
Love it or hate it, there is no arguing with the viewing figures. ITV’s new Saturday primetime show Splash! is clearly a huge hit with the young audience its aimed at. But as for the grown-ups (and especially those who use twitter) it was a drowned turkey! I was on BBC 5 Live following the [...]
Being ‘Best Woman’ at a Wedding – A Guide
I am off to New York for a very special event – the wedding of my friend Andy to his Manhattan sweetheart… It is going to be quite a grand affair and to top it off for me, I am his ‘Best Woman’ !! Yikes. The role of Best Woman is pretty new in the [...]