John Baker’s Blog

During my talk in Lincoln last night I read an extract from one of the novels in the Sam Turner series.
I published Shooting in the Dark some years ago. It is a novel centred around a death-threat to a blind woman and her sister. It is about sight and seeing and how easy it is [...]

Pierrepoint is an interesting film, Directed by Adrian Shergold, who cut his teeth with the British television industry and was responsible for The Second Coming, the 2003 production with Christopher Eccleston.
Interesting, also, that Albert Pierrepoint was not the last hangman in the UK, as he retired in the mid-fifties, although the last executions were carried [...]

 
Tonight the two authors read from their works and share fascinating insights into their lives.
This is taken from the programme of The Terry O’Toole Theatre for tomorrow evening when Margaret Murphy and myself are booked to entertain the residents of North Hykeham, in Lincolnshire.
I suppose I do this kind of thing about once a month. [...]

On a good night you want laughter and tears at the same time… and that piece of art has to have guts. John Godber.
John Godber’s Wrestling Mad is touring the North of England and stopped over at York’s Grand Opera House for a few days. Godber directs this, his fiftieth script, under the management [...]