DAVID SAVILL

This piece was inspired by my love of Skateboarding

The burning world turns.

I think my longing for a good night out got into this somewhere.

Politics got into this piece. We long for a leader with the eloquence of Obama. This track features extracts from his 2016 speech support...

An imaginary soundtrack for my Russian thriller.

Since March 2020, I've been composing a new piece of music every week. This has been a creative challenge, and a way to share music with ...

1. The Businessman and The Spy When in 1996 members of Boris Yeltsin’s inner-circle invited Vladimir Putin to be part of the ailing presi...

What does Europe mean to you? I was introduced to the history of Europe while careering through the continent on the backseat of an Itali...

Two men squatted on the dock, in the shadow of a London policeman. I do not know if they had just arrived in one of the rust red shipping...

Students experiencing their first Creative Writing workshops fear criticism. Of course they do. They hope they will 'get away' with all t...

Late in 1949, George Orwell lay dying in University College Hospital. In his superlative collection of essays and memoirs, The 30's and A...

The Cold War is back. Both in academic circles and popular culture. The popularity of Tom Robb Smith’s Child 44, (given a big budget Holl...

Sehii Plokhy is the Mykhailo Hrushevskyi professor of Ukrainian history at Harvard University. It is no surprise then, that his account o...