Michael Hodges

Art, travel, books, journalism. An award or two. More words at

[Michael Hodges @ViewfromPenge]

Happy birthday Eric Ravillious. Remembering his work and strange and tragic end when his plane was lost in WWII. I talked to his daughter and the daughter of the pilot. https://t.co/88XRJ6M5q6

[Sam Jackson @classicjacko]

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[Michael Hodges @ViewfromPenge]

Should they show The Odyssey in the Whitehouse? Taster of my RT interview with #AnneHathaway and #MattDamon ... https://t.co/wHPiui8dpQ

[Michael Hodges @ViewfromPenge]

Is Constable really better than Turner, or am I just getting old? I followed them around England for @IndyTravel https://t.co/jqQ1kKAKg7

[Michael Hodges @ViewfromPenge]

I dodged wolves in Netherlands to see the pointillist masterpieces coming to @NationalGallery in September https://t.co/el9YNMVO8p

[Michael Hodges @ViewfromPenge]

Happy birthday to Sean Bean, who tells me, 'I'd rather play a great character who dies than a mundane character who lives'

https://t.co/mO7PeyflwH

[Nick Trend @travellingtrend]

Publication day! ❤️❤️❤️ @LaurenceKingPub #love #art

[Michael Hodges @ViewfromPenge]

I was sent by @IndyTravel to a muddy hill outside Siena ahead of @NationalGallery Siena: The Rise of Painting. Worth it for the wonders within. What a city https://t.co/3bfc3zRKe8

[Foyles Bookshop @Foyles]

Only a few days to go until we welcome the most iconic duo in British art Gilbert & George to Foyles. They will be sharing the stage with art dealer & author James Birch & journalist Michael Hodges to talk about Birch's latest book of art world adventures🎫https://t.co/JcWgDeuQWS

[Michael Hodges @ViewfromPenge]

Get back to Valencia if you can - my piece for @IndyTravel https://t.co/7tuZt53nTP

[Michael Hodges @ViewfromPenge]

Another childhood hero gone. Wonderful player. Thank you John Tudor.

[Mick Edmondson @MadMickToonDJ]

RIP Newcastle United Great John Tudor. So sad to hear the news of this wonderful man’s passing. John was a friend of The Back Page & our thoughts are with his lovely wife Anne, family & friends. 🖤🤍

[Michael Hodges @ViewfromPenge]

Thrilled to have worked on another art and spies book with James Birch, out now @CHEERIOPublish. My Times piece on a remarkable story... https://t.co/JfeTONHTHB

[DepressedBergman @DannyDrinksWine]

Remembering Moira Shearer on her 99th birth anniversary!

The Red Shoes (1948)
Directors: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger

[Sam Jackson @classicjacko]

Always a pleasure to chat with @ViewfromPenge for @RadioTimes. Our latest conversation covered @BBCRadio3’s encouraging listener figures, the launch of Radio 3 Unwind, and a few other things besides: https://t.co/c7ER8FKBAo

[alex thomson @alextomo]

The North York Moors today - fire after fire as they set grouse moors alight, as if the climate crisis simply doesn’t exist.

[Michael Hodges @ViewfromPenge]

@SueM1tchell @PrixItalia @wrobinson101 @joelmoors @GrinderRob @djoeclarke @BBCRadio4 @PRIXEUROPA Huge congratulations Sue - very much deserved.

[Michael Hodges @ViewfromPenge]

#VanGogh at @NationalGallery is mind-blowing - my piece for @IndyTravel on where he did the magic

[Independent Travel @IndyTravel]

On the Van Gogh trail in Arles where the secrets (and lies) of the artist’s world are revealed
https://t.co/DlztRscRPn

[Michael Hodges @ViewfromPenge]

#MichaelPalin tells me why he left the BBC and reveals being nice isn't all it's cracked up to be. Full interview at https://t.co/bsDhasrOCB

[Radio Times @RadioTimes]

In honour of his newly published volume of diaries There and Back, Sir #MichaelPalin reflects on why he parted from the BBC, the death of his wife Helen, and how, at 81, he intends to keep travelling the world - all in this week's issue of Radio Times.

[Michael Hodges @ViewfromPenge]

Before #RachelReeves takes my millions I ran away to be a Jersey tax exile for @IndyTravel. Fine wines and Michelin-starred food were encountered. And a very big beach...
https://t.co/INKrHGYJke

[Michael Hodges @ViewfromPenge]

@Hallibee1 @timestravel Thank you Rachel, much appreciated.

[Michael Hodges @ViewfromPenge]

Knocked out by my partner Anna Crane's bravery and derring do ... hiking over mountains after cancer surgery. For @timestravel, free to read.