A personal landscape

Ashes in the Wind

It’s fair to say that Sir Christopher Bland’s reputation precedes him. Chairman of the Canongate publishing company, he has served on the Board of Governors of the BBC, as chairman of British Telecommunications, and Chairman of the Royal Shakespeare Company. He also — and it’s a matter of no little pride — fenced for Ireland in the Olympic Games in Rome in 1960.

Born in Japan, reared in Northern Ireland, Bland has lived most of his life in England and has a small vineyard in Gascony, France.