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David Charters

Hal Mullin

BALDNESS began its inexorable advance to the remoter outposts of his scalp just as the 1960s began to swing and long hair became all the rage. Read

Angus Fairhurst

HIS work was unlikely to be seen hanging between the Crying Boy and the ducks in flight on the lounge wall of your average semi. Read

Voyages to discover the unknown

150 years ago, David Livingstone left Birkenhead for Africa. Soon, other explorers were being carried around the Empire in hammocks and bathchairs. David Charters reports Read

Shoutoutherehereherehere

THE face on the man sitting opposite carried all the shades of cooling porridge, from light grey to pale grey. Read

John Hewer

John Hewer

SOME people achieved much in their lives, winning awards for this and that and sitting on all sorts of committees, pontificating on everything important to the world. Read

Richard Widmark

THERE was something mean in the cold stare of his blue eyes, which suggested the cut of steel. But this worked well for the man, whose shadow stretched across the big screen at a time when the princes of Hollywood were riding high. Read

Bill Brown

HE WAS one of the “Invincibles”, but he was also a modest man of slight stature with a wry view of the world, rooted in his love of cricket, a game whose duration allows for a little philosophy as well as supreme dedication. Read

Summer night’s dream from the Bard

Summer night’s dream from the Bard

God, quarrymen, mother nature and community spirit have attracted one of the world’s greatest Shakespeare companies to a Liverpool garden. David Charters reports Read

Robert McLaren Todd

THE presence of the tall man, whose white hair was thin on top but always trimmed above the collar and ears, will be cherished for a long time. Read

Philip Jones Griffiths

HE CAME from a little country and saw through his boy’s eyes that its culture was threatened from outside. Read

Singing Shakespeare

Singing Shakespeare

He loves pop music but prefers the Bard of Avon, so the Mersey DJ is now singing the songs of the great playwright. David Charters reports Read

Paul Scofield

HIS face carried a half-smile of expectation and the weariness of one who knows the ways of man. Read

Arthur C Clarke

HE WAS the bespectacled and bald prophet with a beaming smile, who travelled a distant land in a wheelchair, but had taken people on journeys way beyond our puny world. Read

Anthony Minghella

HIS parents made fine ice cream the Italian way and they were passionate about their work, but the boy was the teller of stories, the dreamer, who became a master of modern cinema. Read

Jane Lumb

SHE had everything a rock musician could want – long legs, a short skirt, a come-hither pout, a rich dad and a boarding school voice. Read

Stan Williams next to the John Lennon statue in Mathew Street

Another side of a working class hero

THE mystery of a poppy-seller in one of the Beatles’ greatest songs will be revealed in the memoir of a boy whose feet were once parted by John Lennon’s knife. David Charters reports Read

David Charters: There are many ways of dealing with strangers who call to discuss money

DARKNESS chilled the night down to the marrow of the old trees, which moaned, heaved and shuddered against the anger of the wind, sweeping from the river across the hooded town. Read

How the Mersey Ferries helped win the First World War

How the Mersey Ferries helped win the First World War

THEY are celebrated in Mersey song and romance but 90 years ago, two ferries left the river and sailed to glory. David Charters reports Read

Harry Bedson

Harry Bedson

HE WAS a spry fellow with a big baritone voice, who had seen the wobble of stage furniture, as well as the perfect recreations of Alpine valleys or cowboy saloons, as he performed on stages trod by the great, or those which creak in the small church and village halls, where tea and biscuits were served at the interval and the stapled programme named everyone in the production. Read

Norman ‘Hurricane’ Smith

Norman ‘Hurricane’ Smith

IF YOU wanted a name which celebrated the steady British bloke, tending his garden on a Sunday, you could do no better than Norman Smith. Read

Author Profile

Award-winning feature writer and columnist David Charters is a highly-respected journalist and author whose hugely-popular weekly column is now available in print and podcast format. Tel: 0151 4722427

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