Written for The Zoe Ball Breakfast Show on BBC Radio 2 on July 2021, the morning of the day England play Denmark in the semi-finals of the European Championships. You can listen here. I’m feeling on edge today. Right on the edge of things, but in a good way.It’s partly the football: the sense thatContinueContinue reading “Maybe There Is Hope”
Author Archives: Cole Moreton
In Praise of Peggy: tea with June Spencer, still leading The Archers on BBC Radio 4 at the age of 102
Extraordinary to hear June Spencer leading a storyline on The Archers so beautifully at the age of 102. She started playing Peggy Archer back in 1950. I visited her at home a few years back for The Telegraph. What a life. June Spencer, courtesy of the BBC She made me cry long before we everContinueContinue reading “In Praise of Peggy: tea with June Spencer, still leading The Archers on BBC Radio 4 at the age of 102”
A Random Act of Kindness
A Pause for Thought about love, a random act of kindness that made me cry and the joy of strangers, written for today’s Zoe Ball Breakfast Show on BBC Radio 2.
Bloody Good Friday
Doubtful reflections on a very old story The death itself is not an unusual one. We say that it is, we tell the story of the horrors and humiliations that preceded it and dwell on the pain of the nails pressing into the flesh and the body stretched and hung and pierced as if heContinueContinue reading “Bloody Good Friday”
Why I love Phoebe Dynevor
I mean, doesn’t everybody at the moment? Phoebe Dynevor is the breakout star of Bridgerton, the biggest thing on Netflix at the time of writing, but I want to tell you about something unexpected that happened while I was interviewing her for You magazine. I was at home and Phoebe was at her Mum andContinueContinue reading “Why I love Phoebe Dynevor”
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