I’m Charlie Lee-Potter — journ­al­ist, writer and broad­caster from Oxford.

Here are answers to some ques­tions I’ve been asked:

Who takes all the pho­to­graphs?
I do. I can very quickly become nerdy about my cam­eras, so I’ll limit myself to say­ing I use a Canon EOS 5D Mark II and a Canon 7D and stop right there. The only pho­to­graph I didn’t take is this one. It’s by my friend, the bril­liant pho­to­grapher Simon Brown.

What broad­cast­ing and journ­al­ism have you done?
I’ve presen­ted sev­eral BBC Radio 4 pro­grammes with the word ‘world’ in the title: The World at One, The World Tonight and The World This Week­end. I also presen­ted Radio 4’s PM pro­gramme for five years as well as Open Book. I was a news reporter for BBC radio and tele­vi­sion for many years and presen­ted BBC Break­fast News and a series of polit­ical doc­u­ment­ar­ies for BBC2. I write book reviews and arts fea­tures for a vari­ety of dif­fer­ent publications.

Your posts often seem to focus on lit­er­at­ure — why’s that?
Read­ing is one of my great loves. It’s just as well since I am fight­ing my way to the end of a PhD on the con­tem­por­ary novel while work­ing as a Vis­it­ing Lec­turer at Lon­don University.

What kind of name is Eggs on the Roof?
When I was little my mum’s best friend Sally told me that if I threw an egg over the top of our house, it would never break. There are lots of eggs on the roof of that house. But food should be fun — throw­ing all those eggs was.

Why do you like eat­ing out­side in the rain?
Because when you come from the UK you have to learn to love it. It’s an essen­tial part of our education.

Can I use text or pic­tures from your site?
All text and images on this site, unless expressly spe­cified oth­er­wise, belong to Charlie Lee-Potter. If you wish to use any image or text from Eggs on the Roof you must obtain prior author­isa­tion and you must link back to the site, cred­it­ing me.