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Chipmunk
It is a warm Saturday afternoon in Jamaica and I am in a large beach-fronted villa withChipmunk and 20 bikini-clad, oiled beauty queens. The British
Elizabeth Smith was in hospital having had her first child when she learned about the free books. The nurses gave her the form as part of an information pack and … Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library
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Tunnel of Love- my favourite album
It was in the autumn of 1987, after a summer soundtracked by Rick Astley and Los Lobos, that I first heard
A barbarously sticky afternoon in Jamaica and I'm in Kingston inside a windowless room … The Jolly Boys
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The Jolly Boys
25th July 2010
A barbarously sticky afternoon in Jamaica and I'm in Kingston inside a windowless room with a low ceiling and brown carpet on the walls watching five old men. They are all in their 70s – except the ones in …
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Jack White- the interview
This is your first live album. What took you so long?
I'm not generally a fan of live records and because every show the White Stripes play is different, it was always hard to try and imagine a …
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meet the family- at home with the Grewals
this is from the Guardian 5th December
George and Mildred. Terry and June. Richard and Judy. Television has thrown up many memorable married double acts but there has been no one quite like Arvinder and Sarbjit Grewal. They are the unlikely stars of Channel 4’s fly-on-the-wall documentary series, The Family, …
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bruce reborn
I went to my first Bruce Springsteen concert 21 years ago. It was 25 June 1988 and I was 17 years old. I had discovered Springsteen the previous autumn through my best friend Amolak, quickly realising his music contained clues to the most profound questions about life, love and happiness. …
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meera syal interview
this was published on June 19th in the guardian
Meera Syal is many things: a film and television actress, a comedian, a novelist, a screenwriter, a librettist, even a singer. But for me, more than anything else, she has also been a trailblazer - someone who made British Asians of …
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aasif mandvi interview
this was published in the guardian on june 8th.
Aasif Mandvi was just another working-class teenage Asian boy living in Bradford when his parents announced the family were leaving Britain for a new life in the United States. “I remember looking at photographs of where we were heading and thinking …
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