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Terence Blacker

@TerenceBlacker

The writer and broadcaster Terence Blacker contributes a twice-weekly column on a wide range of social, cultural and environmental issues. He is the author of four novels, of prize-winning fiction for children, and has written a highly praised biography of the brilliant reprobate Willie Donaldson.

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Even in prison, there is a freedom that comes with the written word

Paul McCartney performs at Glastonbury 2004

Pop is giving our oldsters nervous breakdowns and heart attacks

Kazuo Ishiguro, one of the most celebrated contemporary fiction authors in the English-speaking world, having received four Man Booker Prize nominations, and winning the 1989 award for his novel The Remains of the Day

Are you a fantasist or a realist, in literary terms?

‘The Abominable Bride’ attracted the largest overnight TV audience for drama over Christmas, at 8.4 million viewers

A beleaguered BBC has lost its panache. We need it back