Rob Crossan

1 week ago | cntraveller.com | Rob Crossan

As appealing as Chappell Roan and Sabrina Carpenter are, it’s hard to imagine die-hard fans of either artist becoming pawns in a pan-media class war anytime soon. Wind back three decades and the music scene, in the UK at least, was an infinitely more tribal place. Manchester and London, and their most venerated musical exports, became the hub of a vitriolic and, in retrospect, utterly bizarre period where your musical tastes became a definer of your social class.

2 weeks ago | countrylife.co.uk | Rob Crossan

‘This is a serious message to anyone watching my message right now, peace and love!’ This is how the world’s most famous drummer began a video message, uploaded to YouTube in 2008. ‘Please after the 20th October do not send fan mail to any address that you have, nothing will be signed’ continues Ringo Starr. Why? Because he had ‘too much to do’. The Beatle has subsequently doubled down, voicing his displeasure at the items he has been asked to sign being re-sold for profit by fans.

2 weeks ago | telegraph.co.uk | Rob Crossan

Worst mistake you've ever made? In 1979 I had this huge, early crisis of confidence. When I was a student I wrote to Woman's Hour to see if I could do some work experience for them. They liked an idea of mine about a woman's cult that had started up in Oxford with priestesses. I went off, recorded the piece, edited it then had a complete meltdown of confidence, decided it wasn't good enough and never sent the piece in. I did end up presenting Woman's Hour, but that was about 20 years later.

1 month ago | thesun.co.uk | Rob Crossan

“THEY’RE the clowns of the sea – they never stop fascinating me,” says my tour guide, Steven Banks, as we bob along the fringes of one of Britain’s most fascinating islands. This outpost, around a mile from Northumberland’s shores, may be out of bounds for humans, but it is a favoured part-time home for some of the most endangered, bizarre and, yes, slightly clown-like birds in the Northern Hemisphere — puffins. Even exceptionally rare ones can be spotted.

1 month ago | telegraph.co.uk | Victoria Moore |Xanthe Clay |Rob Crossan |Miranda Levy

If you're gathering friends or family around you over the long Easter weekend, now's a good time to think about what wine you'd like to be drinking. In the hope of a little sunshine, I've gathered together a few brisk whites and sparkling wines that would be good to pour on a warmish, light early evening.