Newspaper articles
1971-04-26, The Guardian, Interview with Alex Hamilton
1971-09-04, Cambridge Evening News, ‘Hounded by the South African Police—and deported’
1973-03-24, Cambridge Evening News, ‘Sharpe turns his pen at Cambridge’
1974-04-18, Cambridge Evening News, ‘Crumbling college on the fiddle’
1976-03-05, Cambridge Evening News, ‘Wilt and Tom, have last laugh’
1976-03-27, The Daily Telegraph, ‘Funny and good at it’
1977-03-04, The Journal, ‘Tom’s below-the-belt humour’
1978-09-13, Dorset Echo, ‘Sharpe words’
1979-04-06, Cambridge Evening News, ‘Sharpe reminder’
1979-05-11, Evening Standard, ‘Sharpe’s progress’
1979-07-04, Dorset Echo, ‘Life’s so serious, it’s a riot! says Tom’
1980-03-02, Sunday Telegraph, ‘West Country thinker at home’, by Auberon Waugh
1980-08-15, The Times Higher Educational Supplement, ‘A novel instance of Sharpe practice’
1981-05-08, Evening Standard, ‘Wilting and hoinking’
1982-11-08, The Times, ‘The Sharpe end of reality’
1984-10-18, Daily Record, ‘A blott on the horizon…’
1984-10-18, The Guardian, ‘The English history men’
1985-01-27, Sunday Telegraph, ‘Sharpe focus put on plots, Blott and blight’
1985-02-01, Cambridge Evening News, ‘Jesting Tom is pining for the city’
1985-09-09, Cambridge Evening News, ‘Sharpe is back where he belongs’
1991-09-04, The Times, ‘Sharpe hails fall of porkpie hats’
1992-07-13, The Times, ‘A serious effort to be funny’
2004-10-13, Expatica.com, ‘Why Tom Sharpe left Cambridge for Catalonia’
2009, Cambridge News, ‘An audience with Tom Sharpe’
Magazine articles
1986, Club International, volume 15 number one, ‘Neil Gaiman talks to Tom Sharpe’
1992-03, Million, ‘Attacking Pretensions’
Books
1986,The Freelance Writer’s Handbook, Paul Kerton
1992, In the psychiatrist’s chair, Anthony W Clare
Radio
1973-03-28, BBC Radio Four, Now Read On, with John Julius Norwich. The pick of the new books including Indecent Exposure by Tom Sharpe.
1981-06-05, BBC Radio Four, Clubland Heroes, ‘Dornford Yates’, in which Tom Sharpe is interviewed
1981-07-25, BBC Radio Four, Novels Up To Now: History Men. The second in Anthony Curtis’s series on post-war fiction considers the campus novel, including works by David Lodge, Kingsley Amis, Malcolm Bradbury, and Tom Sharpe — arguably our four funniest contemporary writers.
1982-08-14, BBC Radio Four, College Days… at Night. Lord Soper, singer Ian Wallace and writer Tom Sharpe relive their days at Cambridge University in an hilarious entertainment presented by Clement Freud.
1982-09-02, BBC Radio Four, Back To The Backs. University life over the years is examined and compared when Joan Bakewell plays hostess to a group of Cambridge graduates. At her punting party and picnic, reflecting on their youthful experiences, are Tim Brook-Taylor, Margaret Drabble, Glyn Daniel, Tom Sharpe, Ian Wallace, and Lord Soper.
1984-11-03, BBC Radio Four, Desert Island Discs
1985-02-16, BBC Radio Three, Critic’s Forum. A discussion on cinema, theatre, books, broadcasting and the visual arts. Subjects include the six-part BBC2 version of Blott on the Landscape by Tom Sharpe.
1987-03-15, BBC Radio Four, Literary Walks. Tom Sharpe joins Christopher Somerville on a walk through Cambridge. Hywel Bennett reads extracts from Porterhouse Blue and Wilt.
1988-10-30, Radio Cambridgeshire, Question Time. Recorded at Littlehay Prison with more than 100 prisoners taking part. Questionmaster Christopher South put questions on crime and punishment to a panel featuring Tom Sharpe, Cambridge University Students’ Union president Gillian Wilson, TUC regional secretary Ivor Jordon, and the secretary of the SLD on Cambridgeshire County Council, Sue Sutton.
1989-05-28, Radio Cambridgeshire, Turning Points. Ros Wright talks to Tom Sharpe.
1991-09-04, BBC Radio Four, In the Physiatrists’s Chair. Dr Anthony Clare’s subject this week is author Tom Sharpe.
1991-12-30, BBC Radio Four, Literary Consequences, ‘Introducing Mr Dolfuss’. Tom Sharpe is the third of five satirical writers to contribute an episode.
1993-01-13, BBC Radio Two, Comedy Bookcase. This week, Bill Oddie reads from one of his favourite satires, Tom Sharpe ‘s celebrated first novel, Riotous Assembly.
1996-12-09 – 1996-12-20, BBC Radio Four, Book at Bedtime: The Great Pursuit. A 10-part reading by Willie Rushton.
2000-03-10 – 2000-05BBC Radio Two, Porterhouse Blue. A nine-part reading by Anton Lesser.
2002-11, BBC Radio Four, Front Row, Mark Lawson talks to Tom Sharpe
Television
1973-11-24, London ITV, Cover to Cover, ‘Funny But It Hurts’. Introduced by Annabel Leventon with John Wells, Tom Sharpe, Margaret Forster and David Jason.
1981-04-15, BBC One, Paperbacks. Presented by Robert Kee featuring Martin Amis, Jessica Mitford, Douglas Adams, and Tom Sharpe (interviewed and reading an extract from The Wilt Alternative).
1984-03-23, BBC One South, Moments. Tom Sharpe talks to Jenni Murray about the people who’ve influenced his thought and the moments marking turning points in his convictions.
1984-08-23, Channel Four, Robinson Country, ‘The Writers: Tom Sharpe and the Places I Hate’
1984-08-23, BBC One, Look East. Tom Sharpe is interviewed.
1984-10-06, TV-am, Good Morning Britain. Presented by Henry Kelly. The guests are Leo Sayer, Marilyn, and Tom Sharpe.
1984-12-09, Channel Four, Book Four. Humphrey Carpenter, Margaret Forster and Gilian Reynolds review books by Tom Sharpe, Christopher Priest, Breyten Breytenbach and the 1930s writer Denton Welch. With Hermione Lee.
1989-25-12, BBC Two, Plum. Documentary on P. G. Wodehouse featuring contributions from Tom Sharpe.