Dan Richards
Writer & Broadcaster | 📚 Overnight • Outpost • Climbing Days • The Beechwood Airship Interviews • Holloway | 📻 Only After Dark: BBC Radio4
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Bestselling author Dan Richards' works as a writer, broadcaster, event chair and public speaker. He has written five non-fiction books, newspaper and magazine journalism, and has written and presented BBC radio series about travel, creativity and the nocturnal world.
Night Vision: Event with Jean Sprackland | Manchester Poetry Library - 18:30, 04.12.25
Night Vision: Event with Jean Sprackland | Manchester Poetry Library - 18:30, 04.12.25
Reading, Manchester Poetry Library
Steam Dreams | The Observer
Steam Dreams | The Observer
Bestselling author Dan Richards' works as a writer, broadcaster, event chair and public speaker. He has written five non-fiction books, newspaper and magazine journalism, and has written and presented BBC radio series about travel, creativity and the nocturnal world.
Eyes in the sky | The Observer
Eyes in the sky | The Observer
Two Men in a Biplane: Video of a talk with Nicholas JR White at The National Gallery of Scotland on 18.11.25
Two Men in a Biplane: Video of a talk with Nicholas JR White at The National Gallery of Scotland on 18.11.25
What sort of kit did daredevil photographer Alfred Buckham use to achieve his amazing pictures? How was he able to fly and take pictures at the same time? In...
Ice-fishing in Moominland – Gutter Magazine
Ice-fishing in Moominland – Gutter Magazine
An essay by Dan Richards
Europe Built Trains. America Built Highways and Regret | New York Times
Europe Built Trains. America Built Highways and Regret | New York Times
As Europe embraces the night train, the United States seems to be sleepwalking into a transport dead end.
Dan Richards in conversation with Adam Biles - Shakespeare & Co. Podcast - April, 2025
Dan Richards in conversation with Adam Biles - Shakespeare & Co. Podcast - April, 2025
In this episode, Adam Biles is joined by writer Dan Richards to talk about his new book Overnight, a deep dive into the world of the night and the people who live and work while the rest of us sleep. From ferry captains and bakers to ICU nurses, researchers, and racing drivers, Richards explores the unseen rhythms and quiet heroism of nocturnal life. The conversation touches on the origins of the book—an unexpected night stranded on a mountain with his father—and how a life-threatening experience during the pandemic reshaped his understanding of vulnerability, care, and community. With warmth, wit, and poetic insight, Richards discusses circadian myths, the industrialisation of sleep, bats, and the benevolence of those who keep the world turning in the dark. Overnight is a tribute to those who inhabit the night, and this conversation shines a light on their often-unseen contributions.
Dan Richards – Riding the overnight mail trains – Railway 200 podcast
Dan Richards – Riding the overnight mail trains – Railway 200 podcast
Letters and parcels are still carried around the country on the rails. Combing his love of the nocturnal world and these trains Dan describes a journey he made from Gateshead to London in the cab of an overnight Royal Mail train.
Monocle Radio – Exploring stories after dark with Dan Richards - May, 2025
Monocle Radio – Exploring stories after dark with Dan Richards - May, 2025
We head into the night with Dan Richards, author of the new book ‘Overnight: Journeys, Conversations and Stories After Dark’. Richards celebrates all things ...
Little Atoms podcast - Dan Richards discusses his new book, Overnight
Little Atoms podcast - Dan Richards discusses his new book, Overnight
Listen to Little Atoms 944 - Dan Richards' Overnight from Little Atoms. Dan Richards is the co-author of Holloway (with Robert Macfarlane and Stanley Donwood), and the author of The Beechwood Airship Interviews, Climbing Days, and Outpost. Only After Dark, a BBC Radio 4 series about the nocturnal world, was broadcast to acclaim in 2022. Dan has written for the Guardian, Economist, Esquire and Monocle. On this episode of Little Atoms he talks to Neil Denny about his latest book Overnight: Journeys, Conversations and Stories After Dark.
OVERNIGHT PLAYLIST
OVERNIGHT PLAYLIST
Le Mans at 100: All Day and All of the Night - Esquire Magazine, Autumn, 2023
Le Mans at 100: All Day and All of the Night - Esquire Magazine, Autumn, 2023
In June, the greatest endurance competition in motorsport marked its centenary with another 24-hour race. We went inside the action
Only After Dark - BBC Radio4 series
Only After Dark - BBC Radio4 series
Upcoming episodes of Only After Dark
Collected writing for Caught by the River
Collected writing for Caught by the River
Outpost - Canongate Books
Outpost - Canongate Books
Outpost - A Journey to the Wild Ends of the Earth by Dan Richards - paperback (9781786891570) published by Canongate. An exploration of the outposts set along the edges of civilisation and their impact on the human spirit, from the co-author of Holloway
Conversation with Stanley Donwood (2022)
Conversation with Stanley Donwood (2022)
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ABC - Conversations with Richard Fidler - Outposts (2021)
ABC - Conversations with Richard Fidler - Outposts (2021)
Outposts — what Dan found at the ends of the Earth from Conversations on Podchaser, aired Wednesday, 7th April 2021. Dan Richards follows his curiosity to some of the most remote habitable places in the world including an Icelandic cabin and a monastery high in the mountains of Japan (R)
Climbing Days – Guardian review
Climbing Days – Guardian review
Dorothy Pilley’s memoirs set her great-great-nephew on a beguiling quest to follow in her footsteps – up a mountain
Climbing Days on BBC Radio 4 - Midweek (2016)
Climbing Days on BBC Radio 4 - Midweek (2016)
Libby Purves meets illustrator and author Liz Pichon and pianist Melvyn Tan.
The Beechwood Airship Interviews - HarperCollins reprint
The Beechwood Airship Interviews - HarperCollins reprint
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Felicity Bryan Associates / Contact
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