JOURNALISM
As a Contributing Editor for Country & Town House magazine I wrote from 2007 to 2017 a monthly column profiling interesting and well-known people about their businesses. I have interviewed figures as diverse as Roger Law of Spitting Image fame, the Earl of March (now Duke of Richmond), Arnaud Bamberger of Cartier, Brent Hoberman, formerly of LastMinute.com, landscape photographer Charlie Waite, the well-known London wine merchant Johnny Goedhuis, publisher Martine Assouline, and shirtmaker to the great and the good, Emma Willis. The people profiled tend to have businesses in the retail and luxury brand field but my subjects have ranged far and wide. One of the more recent was Wasfi Kani, the dynamic head of Grange Park Opera, now at West Horsley Place. Many of these articles are available on the magazine’s website.
I have also written feature pieces for other publications, including The Field, Country Life, Racing Post and Marine Quarterly.
Other media work
I have now appeared as an expert on duelling in three television documentaries. The most recent was for Optomen Television (May 2015) in an episode of Mysteries at the Castle. I appeared in Fight Club, a documentary about duelling made for the Yesterday channel. It was screened in October 2012.
I also appeared as a ‘talking head’ in the BBC’s Timewatch’s The Last Duel introduced by James Landale, screened in February 2007. In 2008 I contributed to an edition of Questions, Questions on Radio 4 about duelling. I also did some radio interviews about Pistols at Dawn. More recently, I have contributed to two podcasts on duelling, one for the BBC and one for the ‘Bloody Violent History’ series.
I have lectured and given after-dinner speeches based on A Reluctant Hero.