The Railway Man
Captured by the Japanese in 1942, Eric Lomax was sent to Kanchanaburi, Thailand where he and his fellow PoWs were forced to build the notorious Burma Railway which claimed over 100,000 lives. While on the railway, Lomax...
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Something Wicker This Way Comes…
Ahead of a new re-mastered release, Ian Winterton chats paganism, Christopher Lee and Nicolas Cage in a bear-suit with Wicker Man director Robin Hardy. Though consistently rated as one of the best horror films ever, that epithet...
Read MoreTalkin’ ‘bout My Generation
It’s a crisp, sunny autumnal morning in the canteen of Leeds’ West Yorkshire Playhouse and Alice Nutter is doing her best not to be angry. Yes, she might be the former lead singer of Chumbawamba, the anarcho-punk band whose 1997...
Read MoreWolfblood author Debbie Moon talks to Northern Soul
Panting, out of breath, a wolf powers through the snow on a desolate moor. He is pursued: two wolves speed after him, bigger, shaggier and angrier… So begins the new episode of Wolfblood, showing at a BBC Writersroom event at...
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