Louis Barfe

{{Short description|English journalist (born 1973)}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}

{{Infobox person

| name = Louis Barfe

| birth_name = Louis Barfe

| birth_date = {{Birth year and age|1973}}

| birth_place = Epsom, Surrey, England

| alma_mater = Lancaster University

| occupation = Writer

}}

Louis Barfe (born 1973 in Epsom, Surrey) is an English writer of non-fiction."[http://www.amheath.com/profile.php?a=398 Author biography at AM Heath literary agency website] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110316082822/http://www.amheath.com/profile.php?a=398 |date=2011-03-16 }}. Retrieved 2011-03-03. Barfe graduated in Politics from Lancaster University in 1995, where he stayed on for a 4th year as the elected editor of the university newspaper SCAN."[http://www.maths.lancs.ac.uk/~rowlings/Inkytext/msg00089.html Mention in Lancaster University internal bulletin] Inkytext 348 Part II. Retrieved 19 March 2011.{{Cite news|last=Perry|first=Jack|date=14 November 2014|title=A conversation with Louis Barfe|work=SCAN|url=https://scan.lancastersu.co.uk/2014/11/14/a-conversation-with-louis-barfe/|access-date=21 July 2020}} He worked as a journalist on the book trade magazine Publishing News from 1998 to 2002, and as a freelance journalist has worked extensively for Private Eye, The Oldie and Radio Times, and has also written for the New Statesman,"[http://www.newstatesman.com/writers/314079 New Statesman - writers - Louis Barfe] New Statesman (London). Retrieved 4 March 2011. The Independent, The Guardian and the Sunday Telegraph. He was, until June 2005, the deputy editor of Crescendo and Jazz Music magazine. Since 2005 he has appeared extensively on BBC Radio Norfolk, mostly on the afternoon show, with Graham Barnard, Chris Goreham, Roy Waller and Stephen Bumfrey, talking about archive television, and has contributed to programmes on BBC Radio 2, BBC Radio 3, BBC Radio 4 and BBC Radio 5 Live.

His first book, Where Have All the Good Times Gone? The rise and fall of the record industry,Kane, Pat (25 June 2004). [https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/where-have-all-the-good-times-gone-by-louis-barfe-733359.html "The day the music died"] (book review). The Independent (London). Retrieved 3 March 2011.Brown,Helen (9 May 2004). [https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/3616578/Shake-rattle-and-roll.html "Shake Rattle and Roll"] (book review). Daily Telegraph (London). Retrieved 7 March 2011. was published in 2004 by Atlantic Books. Atlantic also published his second, Turned Out Nice Again: the story of British light entertainment,McKay, Sinclair (25 November 2008). [https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/non_fictionreviews/3563607/Nice-to-see-them-to-see-them.html "Nice to see them, to see them?"] (book review). Daily Telegraph (London). Retrieved 7 March 2011. which came out in 2008; and his biography of the comedian Les Dawson, The Trials and Triumphs of Les Dawson,Deacon, Michael (30 January 2012). [https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/bookreviews/9049144/The-Trials-and-Triumphs-ofLes-Dawson-by-Louis-Barfe-review.html "The Trials and Triumphs of Les Dawson by Louis Barfe: review"] (book review). Daily Telegraph (London). Retrieved 28 November 2018. which was published in 2012.

He ran in the 2010 United Kingdom general election as an independent candidate in Waveney.{{cite web | url=https://barfenotap4waveney2010.wordpress.com/about/ | title=About | date=9 April 2010 }}{{cite web | url=https://eastern.greenparty.org.uk/news/louis-barfe-is-now-one-of-the-above.html | title=Louis Barfe is now "One of the Above" }}

When he was asked to write a biography of Morecambe and Wise, his initial thought was: surely there's nothing new to be said about the comedy duo. But he was able to find a fresh perspective on well-worn events when he began interviewing key figures from the lives of the comedians.{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_r4QRDmnkE |title=LOUIS BARFE - IN CONVERSATION |date=2022-05-06 |last=Josh Barry |access-date=2024-07-19 |via=YouTube}}