Entries for January 2010
on Cartaghena and Marquez
I am writing this from Cartaghena in Columbia where I am speaking at the Hay festival. It is a steaming, sweltering city and a far cry from my usual experience of Hay festivals which tends to involve wellington boots. I have just come from speaking at a British Council …
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upcoming in Febuary…
I have two Radio 4 documentaries being broadcast next month. one is about Johnny Cash and his Scottish roots and it is out on Feb 13 and then two weeks later I have one about the true state of working class identity.. I will give details of exact times …
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the culture show
the new series of The Culture Show starts on Thursday at 7pm BBC2- I am presenting a report on a photography exhibition of images from India, Pakistan and Bangladesh that is showing at the Whitechapel Gallery. Some of the photographs are fantastic so it is worth watching if only …
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trying to contact matthew ellis
I went to Luton Sixth Form College with Matthew from 1987 to 1989 and he was a pretty close friend. We kept in touch for a few years after that- he briefly was in a rock band and the last time I spoke to him he was living in Leicester. …
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