Brian Viner
Brian Viner swapped London for the Herefordshire countryside, and his column ‘Country Life’ documents his attempts to chase the rural idyll. Chiefly a sports writer, he pens a weekly sports column and interview for the paper. He is the author of 'Ali, Pele, Lillee and Me: A Personal Odyssey Through the Sporting Seventies'.
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Green baize takes on the green-fingered
05 May 2013 12:00 AM
Brian Viner bravely enters the snooker vs gardening row, and explains to the mystified why he is mesmerised
So innocent those days growing up in front of the telly. Or maybe not ...
03 May 2013 07:33 PM
For my generation these revelations are not just sickening, they are disorientating
Mark Webber, Sebastian Vettel and how we learnt that only the flag is black and white in Formula One
25 March 2013 07:14 PM
We have the spectacle of a man lambasted by his team for winning a race
BBC Television Centre: Farewell to the dream factory
03 March 2013 12:00 AM
It gave us Basil Fawlty, Del Boy, the Daleks, and Eric & Ernie – though not, necessarily, in that order. Now, after more than 50 years, BBC TV is to quit its Wood Lane base
Mersey beat: Ken Grant captured the spirit of Liverpool as it coped with two decades of distress
17 February 2013 12:00 AM
The photographer chronicled the turmoil in the north west in the 1980s and 1990s.
Laura Davies: She has still got drive despite tour transformation
04 December 2012 08:58 PM
Britain's four-times major winner is just shy of turning 50 and has seen the world of women's golf change dramatically – yet her desire is as fierce as ever, she tells Brian Viner
Martin Freeman: No ordinary Bilbo Baggins
30 November 2012 08:30 PM
From ‘The Office’ in Slough to Middle-earth, he finds a heroism in everyday decency
Mary Berry: Flour power
13 October 2012 12:00 AM
Baking is having a big moment – for which one of TV's unlikeliest stars takes a lot of the credit
Nick Faldo: 'Sure, I would have done it differently'
26 September 2012 12:00 AM
Exclusive: Nick Faldo, who predicts a tie at Medinah, made mistakes as captain four years ago but was also held back by unexpected events, he tells Brian Viner
Ryder Cup: Tough Davis Love up for fight after life studded with tragedies
25 September 2012 12:00 AM
American captain says the loss of his father in a plane crash has made him more determined
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'Sickening, deluded and unforgivable': Bloody attack brings terror to capital’s streets
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Mothers' diets may harm IQs in two-thirds of babies
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Far-right French historian, 78-year-old Dominique Venner, commits suicide in Notre Dame in protest against gay marriage
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Eyewitness gives extraordinary account of her confrontation with Woolwich attackers
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Woolwich attack: The EDL might have a sinister plan as a soldier is murdered in suspected Islamic terrorist attack
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Edward VIII’s phone calls - and how MI5 bugged them
Sent down at the Old Bailey
Hollywood's random acts of red-carpet kindness
British football scores an own goal
James Lawton
Dylan Hartley talks tough
Watch out Watford: Here comes the secretive Bilderberg Group
'The ultimate all-in-one home entertainment system'
Plenty of sleaze
The Freemasons’ Code
Not secure any more: G4S boss heads for exit at last
How to say ‘I’m a sellout’
Why clubs are keen to take a stand
In the end the fans decided Tony Pulis had made a pig's ear of the job at Stoke City
James Lawton: The James Hunt I knew is the subject of a new F1 movie
