"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."

"I saw the 'Popstars' programme and to me it looked more like 'Opportunity Knocks' than the kind of cutting-edge postm…"

"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…"