Gavin Scott's Blog

After the successful rally on July 8  and the crucial council vote in favour of a park when the Santa Monica airport closes, local people celebrated.

Urging the Santa Monica Council to back the plan for the Great Airport Park that voters have been asking for since 2014

The Attractions of Simplicity. Why there’s no need for elaborate plans for the Great Park to replace Santa Monica Airport in 2029

This week’s Five Minutes with Gavin Scott celebrates one of the finest and most inspiring minds ever to contemplate the cosmos:    

A splendidly melodramatic poem about British adventures in India by the Edwardian music hall artist J Milton Haynes.

This week’s Five Minutes with Gavin Scott tells the extraordinary story of Joseph Conrad and the most effective sentence ever written about colonialism.

Discover the man who wrote Drake’s Drum and Play up, Play up and Play the game!

This week’s Five Minutes with Gavin Scott is about William Wordsworth’s speculations on where we come from and his poetic delight in the world around him

This week’s Five Minutes with Gavin Scott brings us to one of literature’s greatest suspense sequences, in Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island https://youtu.be/AQuOnHIFhGc

Celebrating the adventurous life and enchanting sea poems of John Masefield