Tom Fort was educated at Eton and Balliol College, Oxford. In 1978 he joined the BBC in London where he worked in the BBC Radio newsroom for 22 years. He lives in South Oxfordshire with his wife and two of his children and has been travelling up and down the A303 for over five decades.
...accounts of his (undoubtedly) wicked behaviour seem like comic jewels. BH THE A303: HIGHWAY TO THE SUN by Tom Fort (Simon & Schuster, £7.99; offer price, £7.59) Biography of the ‘holiday’ road that runs west towards Devon and Cornwall, going...
...The space to talk about the books you are reading, and find out which ones we are reviewing One conversation in last week's thread was particularly pleasing to the books team: it was about the relative merits of Mohammed Hanif's The Case of Exploding...
...over 90 miles between Basingstoke in the east and the Devon town of Honiton in the west. But Tom Fort managed it, in his evocation of those roads taken on family holidays, in the days when parents drove with their children every year to the same holiday...
...Tom Fort devours a witty, lively exploration into our digestive tract Horace Fletcher was the great prophet of extreme chewing. The self-styled nutritional economist advised mastication until solid food was completely...
...Tom Fort devours a witty, lively exploration into our digestive tract Horace Fletcher was the great prophet of extreme chewing. The self-styled nutritional economist advised mastication until solid food was completely...
...'Sorry!' by Henry Hitchings is a well-mannered survey of the way the English behave My own manners are not, I am sorry to confess, as refined as I would wish. I am not as considerate towards others as I should be. At meals I have been known to talk too...
...October 9 and 10, 1971, remain red-letter days in the short history of one of Americas more improbable frontier settlements. The Lord Mayor of London was there, as were Dickensian sweeps, Maid Marians, cowboys and a flock of London pigeons. A band of...
...Designated Hitter: Justin Paul, Highland Outfield: AJ Shaw, Cowley College Outfield: Andrew Standish, Highland Outfield: Ka’ai Tom, Fort Scott Pitcher: Zack Butler, Kansas City Pitcher: Aaron Mason, Fort Scott Pitcher: Mark Meadors,...
...accounts of his (undoubtedly) wicked behaviour seem like comic jewels. BH THE A303: HIGHWAY TO THE SUN by Tom Fort (Simon & Schuster, £7.99; offer price, £7.59) Biography of the ‘holiday’ road that runs west towards Devon and Cornwall, going...
...The space to talk about the books you are reading, and find out which ones we are reviewing One conversation in last week's thread was particularly pleasing to the books team: it was about the relative merits of Mohammed Hanif's The Case of Exploding...
...over 90 miles between Basingstoke in the east and the Devon town of Honiton in the west. But Tom Fort managed it, in his evocation of those roads taken on family holidays, in the days when parents drove with their children every year to the same holiday...
...Tom Fort devours a witty, lively exploration into our digestive tract Horace Fletcher was the great prophet of extreme chewing. The self-styled nutritional economist advised mastication until solid food was completely...
...Tom Fort devours a witty, lively exploration into our digestive tract Horace Fletcher was the great prophet of extreme chewing. The self-styled nutritional economist advised mastication until solid food was completely...
...s Office K-9 Unit members competed in this competition, Sgt. Kyle Albritton and K-9 partner Mico, Deputy Sheriff Tom Fort and K-9 partner Cain, Deputy Sheriff Corey Tomblin and K-9 partner Rimco, and Deputy Sheriff Jose Molina and K-9 partner Ringo. All...