David Hewson @david_hewson Twitter profile

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David Hewson

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2 years

As a former Times journalist can I say... This is very odd indeed. Unpublishing a story of this importance is quite extraordinary.

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@soniapurnell

2 years

The story that vanished. In case you didn’t see it…

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2 years

As someone who reporting for the Times got things wrong once or twice let me tell you what happens. We publish a correction. We don't pretend the original story never happened. And the idea of deleting it entirely from the public record. Well...

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David Hewson

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4 years

A friend in agriculture has just seen the Environment Minister suggest sheep farmers should swap to raising cows instead and I would seriously suggest George Eustice goes nowhere near a farm any time in the future. Many still have pitchforks.

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2 years

Breaking...

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David Hewson

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3 years

From the Times

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David Hewson

@david_hewson

2 years

@bazzacollins Well we both worked on the Sunday Times too. Can you remember an occasion when a story was disappeared? If it was wrong we said so. In public.

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David Hewson

@david_hewson

2 years

This same column is headlined 'Path to war was paved with Joe Biden’s failures.' Reminder: Biden has been president for 14 months. Trump spent 4 years denigrating NATO and Ukraine.

James O'Brien

@mrjamesob

2 years

There’s a column in The Times suggesting that Putin would not have invaded Ukraine if the world had paid less attention to Greta Thunberg. And it’s not April 1st. I just checked.

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2 years

It is an odd quirk of the Commons that it's OK to lie but not OK to point out someone is lying. And to get a little lecture on 'decency' for the latter to boot. Do wish Bercow had been there for this.

Best for Britain

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2 years

Leader of the SNP @Ianblackford_MP risks getting thrown out of the House for refusing to say the PM *inadvertently* misled the House

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David Hewson

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7 years

Trump has unified the UK. There isn't a constituency in the country that hasn't voted against his state visits.

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David Hewson

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5 years

Looking like really bad acqua alta in #venice at 10am and 10pm today. For those who want to know what parts of the city this affects here's a very detailed interactive map

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3 years

@davidkurten Gerbils never eject their USB devices safely before pulling out the plug.

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David Hewson

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6 years

For those of you dreaming of a career in showbiz...

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David Hewson

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4 years

Richard Armitage to narrate The Garden of Angels, the new Venetian novel out January 29 - a million thanks Richard! @RCArmitage

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David Hewson

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4 months

Rather nice here today #Venice

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David Hewson

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8 years

A month away from the Romeo & Juliet launch… are your headphones ready?

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David Hewson

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3 years

End of week mood

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David Hewson

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2 years

I don't understand people slagging off @GaryLineker et al for covering the World Cup in Qatar. Commentating on football wherever it is is their job. Unless you feel all media should boycott the event why single them out for criticism?

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David Hewson

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6 years

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David Hewson

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3 years

@GaryLineker @dissenter_ok @SkySportsPL Suspect a lot of the people saying this would be just fine with it if his opinions went in a different direction.

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David Hewson

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8 years

Romeo and Juliet: a new audiobook original with Richard Armitage

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David Hewson

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7 years

A Heart-To-Heart With Richard Armitage via @audiblerange oh.... There's a surprise!

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David Hewson

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3 years

This is still the best news story of the day. Venezia FC, stadium with a capacity of under 8,000 and only reachable by boat or on foot, win promotion to Serie A in the 93rd minute after an hour down to ten men. Needs @GaryLineker there for the Juve game.

Venezia promoted to Serie A - Football Italia

Venezia drew 1-1 with Cittadella despite being down to 10 men for over an hour to clinch promotion back into Serie A after 19 years.

football-italia.net

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David Hewson

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2 years

Am I the only one who's amazed this question is even being asked?

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David Hewson

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3 years

@Bickerrecord 'Woke' is a stupid term bitter people throw at anyone with a scintilla of empathy. Worthless cliche best ignored.

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David Hewson

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8 years

Love it

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David Hewson

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4 months

No idea how many times I've seen this view. Still amazes. #Venice

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David Hewson

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6 years

One other thing I should say about the forthcoming book of Juliet & Romeo. Mr @RCArmitage has kindly written the foreword for which I'm very grateful.

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David Hewson

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9 months

I suggest he listens to @RCArmitage and asks himself... Is it *just* the voice?

Ralph Nader

@RalphNader

9 months

The first group of workers to be entirely replaced by A.I. could be narrators in the booming audio book industry. Not only can A.I. read the books instead of real people, it can imitate the voice of the author. Get ready. We need to foresee what is not good for society. -R

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David Hewson

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2 years

Out October 4 in the UK in hardback from @severnhouse and in audio from @WFHowes worldwide. Post, podcast and newsletter will tell you more next week.

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David Hewson

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3 years

Cheers.... I'm back.

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David Hewson

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2 years

It's carciofi season #Venice

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10 months

I wish to make it clear I'm here solely to work, plan and generally strategise.

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David Hewson

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3 years

Last night in #Venice and of course it has to look like this.

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David Hewson

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3 years

I really, really, really need to get back to #Venice .

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David Hewson

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4 years

This is astonishing and to those of you in the queues I can only tip my hat - that is real commitment to democracy in the face of oppression

Claire McCaskill

@clairecmc

4 years

This is a picture of voter suppression. Why do Americans have to wait in lines this long? This is the line in Suwannee Georgia today to vote.

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David Hewson

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8 years

Philip Pullman lets rip on Brexit and pulls no punches - wonderful

Philip Pullman on the 1,000 causes of Brexit

The dog-whistle call of Nigel Farage’s racism and the lies of Boris Johnson are the final act of a tragedy that began 70 years ago

www.theguardian.com

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David Hewson

@david_hewson

6 years

Congratulations to @RCArmitage and all the back room geniuses at @audible_com can't thank you enough

AudioFile Magazine

@AudioFileMag

6 years

#Audies2018 #ORIGINAL WORK Romeo and Juliet: A Novel by @david_hewson Read by @RCArmitage @Audible_com

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David Hewson

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3 years

From a friend in #Venice … nativity figures on the lagoon

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David Hewson

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4 months

Today's #Venice lunch. Lovely fresh cicchetti €2 each at Adagio by the Frari. Arnold and Luca were there in spirit arguing about whose turn it was to pay the bill.

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3 years

Nadine Dorries piles more threats on the BBC for doing its job. Johnson, who was a joke as a journalist, clearly now believes the only free press is one that supports him.

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David Hewson

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4 years

This by Demi Lovato is quite something. A protest song for the 2020s

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David Hewson

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8 years

Liam Fox to head a new international trade dept. A reminder of why he had to resign as Defence Secretary

Liam Fox resigns following Adam Werritty revelations

Liam Fox resigned as it emerged that the Defence Secretary had personally asked a City financier to bankroll his unofficial adviser

www.telegraph.co.uk

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David Hewson

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1 year

The places most people never find in #Venice eh? Wait for The Borgia Portrait.

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David Hewson

@david_hewson

3 years

Sono tornato!

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David Hewson

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4 years

This is disgraceful. 'We just don’t have money in the budget to pay for contributors.' Says producer who wouldn't dream of going unpaid. Stop asking creative people to work for free. 'Strictly dropped us after we asked to be paid, say musicians'

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David Hewson

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8 years

Did no one at script stage ask 'Why are the suffragettes wearing shiny purple Klan hats'? #sherlock

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David Hewson

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2 years

Oh... a second nighty night from #Venice . Couldn't resist this one on the way home.

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David Hewson

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3 years

Travelling in the Covid era - preparing to travel to Italy under the new rules. First in series.

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David Hewson

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1 year

Delighted to see that Bakaro in Campo Santa Margherita is open again after many months closed. And that it still does a carbonara to rival anything in Rome. Pecorino Romano, guanciale and perfect pasta. #Venice

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David Hewson

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4 years

Finally....

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David Hewson

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8 months

It's nice to be back #Venice

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David Hewson

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2 years

Today was as clear a day as I've seen in the northern lagoon. #Venice

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David Hewson

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10 months

Quiet in #Venice this Sunday morning

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David Hewson

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4 years

None of this comes as a surprise to me. Boris Johnson was sacked from my old paper the Times for making things up. I worked there for a sight longer than he did. No one ever got fired from the Times. It was unthinkable. Yet he managed it. For lying. Plus ça change

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David Hewson

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8 years

@jjauthor How long did your 'friends' stay? What did they see? Cos none of it tallies with the London I've known intimately for 50 years.

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1 year

A bridge Vivaldi must have crossed many times. He lived just round the corner. You're often walking in the footsteps of famous ghosts in #Venice .

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David Hewson

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3 years

The outside world! #Venice

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David Hewson

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3 years

Goodnight from #Venice

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David Hewson

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8 years

Hear Richard Armitage On The Romeo And Juliet You Didn't Know via @audiblerange

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David Hewson

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2 years

The morning paper #Venice

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David Hewson

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3 years

@MarkJLittlewood Hi Mark. For democracy to function it helps to know where lobbying organisations like your IEA get their money from. Instead of ranting about Brexit why not enlighten us about that?

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David Hewson

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8 years

In case you missed it... Romeo & Juliet: A novel is 11 hours and 10 minutes long and out on Dec 6. RA is amazing

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David Hewson

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9 years

Many thanks to those fine folk at Audible, @authorajhartley and @RCArmitage for this splendid award http://t.co/ZAGaXUownV

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David Hewson

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8 years

Delighted to say Romeo & Juliet: A Novel is now edited and complete. Am now listening to @RCArmitage performing #authorsperks

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David Hewson

@david_hewson

3 years

I guess @mrjamesob really did hit the nail on the head when he said their only response to everything right now is to shriek 'Brexit!' at the top of their voices. Do they really think they can do this forever?

Lucy Allan

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3 years

The biggest threat to our democracy was the period 2016-2019 when elected representatives, were doing their utmost to thwart Brexit and block the will of the people. Embittered Remainers still popping up today on the airwaves. Let’s trust the people and respect their vote.

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David Hewson

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11 months

Pleasure! And yes... For those of you who've been asking... Richard will narrate The Borgia Portrait. Release date to come.

Monique

@Monique17963411

11 months

Thank you both @RCArmitage and @david_hewson for making The Garden of Angels come to live for me. I absolutely loved #Geneva and cannot wait for your second novel. 😊😊😊😊😊

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David Hewson

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3 months

#Venice in the rain is quite something too.

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David Hewson

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6 years

Romeo and Juliet nominated for an audio Oscar, the Audie - thanks to @RCArmitage and all ay @audible_com

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David Hewson

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6 years

"What do you do?" 'I'm an author.' 'Have I read anything you've written?' 'Er...' 'You do that for a living?' 'Yup.' 'Under your real name?' 'Yup.' 'Are you writing anything now?' 'No mainly I sit at home sorting my Phil Collins CDs into alphabetical order.'

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David Hewson

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3 months

Watching the rain come down in England and remembering two weeks ago in #Venice

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David Hewson

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4 years

Audible have very generously put a stack of audio stories aimed at the younger generation online for free. Dead easy to listen to. Knowing @audible_com as I do I'm not in the least surprised.

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David Hewson

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2 years

Showing your colours #Venice

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David Hewson

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6 years

@RCArmitage @audible_com You took my bare words and turned them into something else, Richard. Eternally grateful.

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David Hewson

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1 year

I'll be hosting an author dinner at the famous Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Festival in Harrogate in July. @RCArmitage is too. Wonder whose will sell out first 🤔🤣😂

Full Programme Revealed for Theakston Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival 2023 - Harrogate Intern...

A stellar line-up for the Festival's 20th anniversary year

harrogateinternationalfestivals.com

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David Hewson

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8 years

Richard and I were interviewed at length today about Romeo and Juliet. Expect video nearer to launch. Fascinating to hear him talk craft.

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David Hewson

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3 years

First taste of quarantine delivery food. I think I'll manage here.

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David Hewson

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2 years

Night time wander no 9. There are some beautiful Carpaccios in that eiegant white building in Castello. #Venice

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David Hewson

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6 years

Well I'm all booked for the Audies in New York at the end of May to see if @RCArmitage and I win best original for R&J. I will go all Gwyneth Paltrow if we do. Will also do that if we don't of course.

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David Hewson

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8 years

Just out of Love, Love, Love. Fantastic play. Amazing cast. Makes me want to write for the stage. Go see.

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David Hewson

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5 years

Splendid tribute toAndrea Camilleri, and it touches on an important issue - his use of Sicilian in the original. Tough for translators. I was told the US books once had a different translator to the UK - and they were very different books as a result.

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David Hewson

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3 years

My first focaccia

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David Hewson

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3 years

Doesn't matter how many times you come back, this will always take your breath away.

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David Hewson

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2 years

Still the best road sign in #Kent

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David Hewson

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3 years

Well that was quite a launch day. Thanks so much everyone for your interest in my work and of course, @RCArmitage for bringing such life to the audio version.

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David Hewson

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7 years

Working with @RCArmitage and Audible on this was the highlight of 2016 for me - quite unforgettable.

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10 months

Been a while... #Venice

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David Hewson

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1 year

Google Photos now reminds me that eight years ago today I was in Mantua rewriting Romeo and Juliet to be given fresh life by a certain Mr Armitage.

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David Hewson

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3 years

Every time I come back to #Venice I promise myself a frittura mista at Al Merca in the old market on the Lido. What you get depends entirely on the season. This was today's. Consider me stuffed.

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David Hewson

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3 years

Santa Marta #Venice tonight

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David Hewson

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1 year

Thank god people with a public presence arestarting to say this out loud. Politicians it seems daren't.

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“Brexit has been a fucking absolute unmitigated disaster. And it will be a living nightmare until some politician has the balls to put a referendum in a manifesto and run on it and go back into the EU.” Said ⁦ @NoelGallagher ⁩. Yup - that’s spot on.

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David Hewson

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3 months

Good night from #Venice

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David Hewson

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Lunch in the Osteria ai Pugni. At the very table where Luca Volpetti roped Arnold Clover into The Medici Murders. #Venice

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David Hewson

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4 months

It's a mild, still night in #Venice , people outside the cafes enjoying the weather. Very different to a year ago when we launched Garten der Engel here. Then it was arctic. Hoping to see a few people at Studium tomorrow.

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David Hewson

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5 years

@nytimes I went to work wearing odd socks once and this man on the Tube actually mentioned the fact. London Transport Police couldn't give a fig.

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David Hewson

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9 years

Congrats to @RCArmitage for making Audible's top narrators list with Hamlet 👏

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2 years

Night time wander no 4 #Venice

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2 years

Night time wander no 6 #Venice

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David Hewson

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3 years

Is it April Fools Day? A weighing system no one under the age of 40 even understands (nor me any more). What next? Pounds shillings and pence? Guineas? Bear baiting?

The Times and The Sunday Times

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3 years

Boris Johnson is to announce the return of imperial weights and measures, making it legal for market stalls, shops and supermarkets to sell their goods using only Britain’s traditional weighing system post-Brexit

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David Hewson

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4 years

Just amazed gun control in the US is so out of whack no one seems to be asking how the hell a 17 year old wound up with an assault rifle.

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David Hewson

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8 years

Have to admit I'm very flattered by the @audible_com home page right now...

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