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David Charters

Yves Saint-Laurent

TO YOUNG British men, boldly splashing their chips with curry, he was that French bloke with the unpronounceable name, who put girls in trousers. Read

Playing out the sounds of the summer

SSSCHLUPP! Experienced fingers have just slipped a pungent, hard-boiled egg from its shell. Slap! A damp sheet of bubble-gum-pink ham lands on a plate, causing a radish to seek shelter under a curled lettuce leaf. Bup, bup, bup! The old kettle is finally burping to the boil. Read

Lullabies and lessons in life

A mid-year 08 party will celebrate the international road which helped make Liverpool the World in One City and the European Capital of Culture. David Charters reports Read

A new home for an old regiment

A new home for an old regiment

They were always proud in battle. Now a campaign has started to find a new museum for the Liverpool Scottish soldiers who gave so much to their city. David Charters reports Read

Celebrating Scottie Road

THE importance of Scotland Road to Liverpool’s international reputation is widely recognised. Read

New work by Liverpool artist Anthony Brown

Tony Brown: He’s got the whole world at his feet

HE will be the most down-trodden artist in the world when the dandy doodles on his shoes join the great ports of Liverpool and New York. David Charters reports. Read

David Charters: Rebels never grow old

"CAN we?" asked our 12-year-old son, his eyes following the question across the lounge until they met my own eyes - peeping damply over the rim of a newspaper from the armchair, in which my world- weary body puckered like a slowly deflating porpoise. Read

Wilfrid Mellers

IN THE pomp of his days, Paul McCartney once observed that the pop music of today would be the classical music of tomorrow. Read

Margot Boyd

EVERYTHING was perfect about the name, the casting and the character development – and when her voice thundered through the webbed speaker on your wireless, you could hear the squelch of country lanes, smell the jam in WI pots and imagine the rebukes addressed to an Afghan hound, who is hoping to cock a rear leg at an inappropriate moment. Read

Pat Wisniewski

EVERYONE on the wetlands appreciated the knowledge and wisdom of the chap with an unpronounceable name and whiskery countenance, who had a liking for dark chocolate, but an even greater enthusiasm for newts. Read

Mildred Loving

THE judge said the man shouldn’t have married the woman because God put black people on one continent and white people on another. Read

David Charters: Life can be very strange

TO THE keen observer, it was evident that the man himself was in contemplative mood, as he sprinkled shreds of chocolate onto the slow-sighing foam of his cappuccino coffee. Read

Tommy Burns

HE NEVER played for our teams, but you can well imagine him being the soul of the Gwladys Street end or the Kop – with his red hair and his temper, whose fuse burned perilously close to the fizzing point. Read

Fred J Taylor

IN THE long history of their sport, man and pike have never been equally matched, but the chap in the floppy hat with grizzled whiskers, which suggested that he was auditioning for Emmerdale Farm, narrowed the odds with his cunning introduction of deadbaiting. Read

Larry Levine

THERE are always stars, but behind them are the people who make them shine – or, in this case, throb, soar, rumble and then pierce the heavens in glorious layers of music. Read

Irena Sendler

SHE was a Catholic nurse with enough bravery to fill a cathedral, and when the skies were dark and the world was mad, she wore a Star of David on her arm to save thousands of Jewish children from the Nazi death camps. Read

Lucy Appleby

SHE was the old-fashioned English country woman, strong of jowl and a squasher of nonsense, whose kindness and wisdom were always evident in community matters. Read

David Charters: Each human being is sprung differently

YOU will find after many years sniffing the air of these shores that each human being is sprung differently. Some like to soar to unimaginable heights. Others prefer the rub of solid earth under their brogues. Read

David Charters: 'Aspirins always remind me of heart failure,' she said, breezily

IT WAS to me a strange environment. I skulked along the chilled and soulless aisle to the supermarket’s cash-point with the startled and up- reaching gaze of a porcupine, who has just strayed into a balloon parade. Read

David Charters: A good cup of tea is always to be savoured

ALTHOUGH his head’s dome now shines shyly under the sun of summer holidays, his spectacles are rarely free from the dust of the basement archives from which he plucks curled photographs and crumbling words, telling of the way we were then. 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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