Louise Flind

Freelance Classical Music Writer and Critic at Freelance

Born Christie, I grew up at Glyndebourne. I interview people.

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Articles

The actor James Wilby on his favourite things living in Sussex

1 week ago | theargus.co.uk | Louise Flind

3 1/1 The English actor James Wilby shot to international fame starring alongside Hugh Grant in Maurice for which the pair both won the Venice Film Festival’s Best Actor award. From 1994 until 2015 James, 66, owned The Laines in Plumpton which was the childhood home of Queen Camilla but now loves walking near his home in Arlington Reservoir.
Brian Cox in interview with Louise Flind

3 weeks ago | theoldie.co.uk | Louise Flind

"The Oldie is an incredible magazine - perhaps the best magazine in the world right now" Graydon Carter, founder of Air Mail and former Editor of Vanity Fair Subscribe and get a free cartoon book Subscribe Blog | By Louise Flind | May 15, 2025 Did you know Succession would be such a hit? Jesse Armstrong and Adam McKay pitched the show to me and I thought, ‘Wow, this is going to be great.’ Was Logan Roy based on Murdoch? Not at all. Of all the characters I’ve played, I thought Logan was one of...
King of the Natural World turns 99

1 month ago | theoldie.co.uk | Louise Flind

David Attenborough is 99 on May 8, with a new film out - Ocean with David Attenborough. He tells Louise Flind he's happier at home You’ve travelled all your life – is there anything you can’t leave home without? My front door key. It has little charms on it that my dear wife, Jane, gave me. What do you really miss from home? I’m very fond of my bed. Favourite holiday destination? To be absolutely truthful, I’m a European and I like European things.
Arlington Reservoir-based actor James Wilby - My Favourite Things

1 month ago | greatbritishlife.co.uk | Louise Flind

Favourite role? Maurice because very, very rarely is a piece of theatre or film about the character you're playing, and I was in every scene bar one. And it was a harmonious experience with the director James Ivory at the helm. He was just so supportive, inventive and wonderful. And I got on very well with my two co-stars Hugh Grant and Rupert Graves, and that also doesn't always happen. Favourite playwright?
Interview with designer Vicki Mortimer

1 month ago | gramophone.co.uk | Louise Flind

When do you start designing for an opera production? An opera house invites a director to lead a production, and the director brings in their creative team – designer, costume designer, lighting, movement, and sometimes a dramaturg. I’m usually the second person through the door. Did you grow up in a creative household? Definitely a visually literate one. My dad was a modernist architect, and he was especially involved in repurposing old buildings.
Jacqueline Wilson: ‘My dog deleted an entire novel’

2 months ago | yahoo.com | Louise Flind

Jacqueline Wilson was born in 1945 in Bath, and wrote her first book, Meet the Maggots, at nine. After leaving school at 16, she began working for the Dundee-based publishing company DC Thomson on a new girls’ magazine, Jackie. Her writing career took off in 1991 with The Story of Tracy Beaker. She has written more than 100 novels, mostly for children. Wilson lives in Bath with her partner, Trish, and has an adult daughter from her previous marriage. Best childhood memory?
Golden age of the silver screen. Simon Callow interviewed by Louise Flind

2 months ago | theoldie.co.uk | Louise Flind

Do you travel light? No, I travel very, very heavy. I simply cannot make up my mind as to what I might need. I’ve got two vast suitcases, whose contents I’ve disseminated around the apartment I’m staying in, and I’ve got the miserable task in a month of cramming it all in. Having acquired lots of things, I might buy a third suitcase… What’s your favourite destination? I have dear friends in Mykonos. My husband, Sebastian, and I often stay with them. Earliest childhood holiday memories?
Cello traveller. Julian Lloyd Webber tells Louise Flind about his musical family, the genius of Rostropovich and playing with Yehudi Menuhin

Mar 6, 2025 | theoldie.co.uk | Louise Flind

What are your earliest childhood holiday memories? My father (the composer William Lloyd Webber) used to rent cottages in locations chosen because of my brother’s love of ancient monuments. We’d usually end up going down ridiculous unpaved roads, getting flat tyres, with my father effing and blinding. What was it like growing up in such a musical house? Was it inevitable you’d become a musician? It seemed completely normal to me – all this racket going on in every room.
TV presenter Alex Polizzi: A few of my favourite things

Nov 23, 2024 | greatbritishlife.co.uk | Louise Flind

Favourite person? My mother. I was never someone who said that my mother was my best friend growing up. She wasn't. She was very much my mother, but as I get older, the years between us seem to have narrowed, so we seem all almost equal. She has a very strong moral compass. We disagree about lots of things but she’s incredibly kind, and she's very good at what she does. My dad died when I was nine, and my sister was six, and Mum was only 34.
Behind the scenes with an intimacy director

Oct 7, 2024 | gramophone.co.uk | Louise Flind

Hannah Goalstone, intimacy directiorCan you explain what an intimacy director does? An intimacy director is a movement specialist who has three main areas of focus. The most obvious is that we help to choreograph and stage moments of intimacy. We also work as an advocate for both the performer and the crew’s boundaries, and we work as a liaison between the director, the heads of departments and performers to ensure that we’re all telling the same story in a way that is safe for everybody.