Michael Chaplin is a writer of many years’ experience writing for television, the theatre and Radio 4 as well as a number of non-fiction books about the North-East, including his recent hit, ’Newcastle United Stole My Heart – 60 Years in Black and White’. With a lifelong passion for music, his first and more or less only public performance was with Heaton Grammar Choir under the legendary John Healy in Handel’s Messiah at the City Hall in 1964!’