Hugh Thomson

Hugh's new book is 'a South American style adventure' with a mule across England

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Random House
(Preface / Windmill)
now in paperback

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“The man and his mule who walked across England”

Hugh takes an award-winning journey through England

Get lost in Mexico with Hugh

Tequila Oil Weidenfeld & Nicolson

BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week.

Nominated Dolman Travel Book Prize.

'Utterly beguiling'. Boyd Tonkin, The Independent

'Delightful, celebratory and honest.... a now-complete trilogy, his Cochineal Red and The White Rock being two of the finest books on Latin America of recent years'  Rory MacLean, The Guardian

Reviews of Tequila Oil

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Listen again to this BBC Radio 4 series in which Hugh Thomson and Benedict Allen explore the mountains and rainforests of Peru - with Washington the Mule.

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hear the podcast

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listen to Hugh's recent 'radio show from Havana' with the Bee

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Oscar  A very personal account of Oscar Wilde’s life and legacy as the first of the century’s 'rock and roll stars'

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several of the 10 episodes of Dancing in the Street: A Rock and Roll History are available on Youtube, sometimes in their American version as the PBS series 'Rock and Roll':   like episode 8 on Punk:   Jonathan Richman, Steve Jones on how to play guitar on speed (not at speed), The Clash, John Lydon, Johnny Ramone together with Joey Ramone – very rare – and some amazing footage of Patti Smith we found in a fridge, unseen for 20 years.  And Hugh went to Jamaica to have herbal tea with Bunny Wailer. Watch and envy.  Not least because he drops the TV into the swimming pool in the BBC titles.

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A verse-film by Damian Gorman, Hugh Thomson and Ben Taylor marking the tenth anniversary of 9/11.
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We know the journalistic story of 9/11. We know all too well what happened on that day. But what we need to be reconnected with is the emotion. What happened to us all just in watching those horrific events unfold – to the way we think about the world, about good, about evil.
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What the story needs is a poet.
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watch the film:  under 20 minutes
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see what Bloodaxe Books say:  'This is a remarkable film: do watch it....'

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Listen Again to the BBC Radio 4 documentary on Hiram Bingham which Hugh wrote and presented, Who Found Machu Picchu.
‘A classic’, A.L. Kennedy, Pick of the Week.

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See Hugh's cut-out-and-keep 5 minute guide to Machu Picchu for CNN.  Includes a sequence about the discovery of a document revealing more about Machu Picchu's true nature. Written and presented by Hugh.

Both The White Rock and Hugh's edition of Hiram Bingham's Lost City of the Incas were re-issued with new introductions to mark the 2011 centenary of the discovery of Machu Picchu.