Dan Richards

@danzep.bsky.social

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Writer & Broadcaster – Edinburgh 📚 Holloway • The Beechwood Airship Interviews • Climbing Days • Outpost • Overnight // 📻 Only After Dark / The Bare Necessities – BBC R4 👉 https://www.danrichards.uk/ 👈

Join Nicholas JR White and I at the National Gallery of Scotland - 12:45, Tuesday 18th November - for a talk about how we're aiming to follow in the wake of Alfred Buckham's aerial photography (available to attend in-person & online) I've updated the linktree in my bio with details of forthcoming events and book talks, as well as recent newspaper and magazine articles.
Poster for the Night Mail GPO documentary film of 1936
5043 Earl of Mount Edgcumbe, a Great Western Castle Class steam locomotive - photographed at York station on December 4th 2024
A video of Michael Fassbender at the Le Mans 24 hour race, 2023, where he was racing a Porsche 911 in the GTE-Am category. Part of a longer chat, this clip touches on his love of endurance motorsport, the experience of driving at high speed in the dark, and the similarities between acting and racing. Portrait by @nicholasjrwhite #overnght #danrichards #michaelfassbender #nicholasjrwhite #lemans #lemans24 #porsche
Members of the Anstruther RNLI lifeboat crew pose for a picture with writer Dan Richards in front of their main lifeboat.
One of the Anstruther RNLI lifeboat crew jumps into the dock to be rescued as part of a night training session in March 2022.
Anstruther RNLI lifeboat crew in Fife put away one of their boats after night training in the Firth of Forth in March 2022
Praise for Overnight by Dan Richards I loved Overnight. It is both gripping and consoling, and full of an intelligent, querying tenderness for its subjects. I was never sure whether l'd be moved to laughter or tears: often, it was both, and in the end I was sad to leave Richards' humane and witty company' SARAH PERRY 'Overnight takes us to hidden worlds that lie so far from most of our daily lives, but exist in such proximity to them. Dan Richards is an excellent guide, and this is a hugely fascinating, funny and moving book' CHRIS POWER The height of crafted eloquence' SAMANTHA HARVEY 'A revelatory journey into the teeming life of the night. Moving, engrossing, essential.' KATHERINE MAY I found Overnight to be a moving and sympathetic mix of the personal and the observational. Dan Richards captures that out-of-time, dislocated, slightly surreal quality that wakeful overnight hours possess. By turns emotionally raw, fascinating and even a little spooky' KASSIA ST CLAIR 'In Overnight, Dan Richards introduces us to the shadowy, starlit world of postal workers, night nurses, 24-hour industry, late night radio, search & rescue. We meet desperate rough sleepers, racing demons, new mothers... and what shines through most clearly is the humour and the pathos, the remarkable diversity in what it means to live, to work, to love. A lucid dream of a book, one that will keep you up late' CAL FLYN In Overnight, Richards casts the night and its many activities anew to create a book offering a rare type of solace. I've been almost pathologically afraid of the dark my entire life, but Overnight is a kaleidoscopic book, illuminating at every turn dark corners of both the night and our collective minds, until the idea of darkness became appealing, even to me' ALI MILLAR 'Dan Richard's writing spans great gulfs of emotion and experience. He is witty & profound and his curiosity and empathy know no bounds. He takes us deep into the night & brings it utterly alive. PHILIP HOARE
Bessie holds a copies of Dan Richards’ forthcoming book Overnight up in front of her freight train during a night shift