"The Great British Public; a nation of Blue Peter presenters."

"All British artists 1988--? Just signing your name is not enough, you withered fucking idiots."

"The Auteurs have become Luke Haines. I ate their bodies, spat out the pips, and sucked up their souls."

"The point is there's a boring homogenisation of popular culture, so really the problem is there's nothing wrong, the …"

"The more I thought about it, the more obsessed I became with the idea of a swimming journey. I started to dream ever …"

"From water level, I observed the mating joined in flight like refuelling aircraft, and the random progress of the clo…"

"It is through trees that we see and hear the wind: woodland people can tell the species of a tree from the sound it m…"

"Waterlog (1999), Roger's now-classic account of swimming through Britain, published twenty years ago this year, opens…"

"In 1973, Roger Deakin, a British writer and environmental activist, acquired a tumbledown sixteenth-century farmhouse…"

"I never really had any aspirations to be an actor when I was young. I wanted to play the piano in a bar, to be the ol…"