Secret Voices: A Year of Women’s Diaries
On the television suspended above the news reporters’ desks, the set tuned permanently to...
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Tag: Helen Nugent
Gardening: a splash of summer colour
When it comes to garden envy, nothing excites my green-eyed monster more than Longmeadow. What Sir...
Read MoreSuzanne Vega: “The audience comes, thinking of their own memories”
When I wore out my Suzanne Vega cassettes in the 1980s, playing them over and over again, never in my wildest dreams did I think that, one day, I’d be explaining builder’s tea to my musical hero. But earlier this...
Read MoreReview: Room on the Broom, The Lowry, Salford
“I’ll just turn my shoes off.” Things have changed since I was a kid. As my five-year-old niece reached down to switch off the sparkly lights on her trainers, I reminisced about my childhood pre-theatre...
Read MoreRamsbottom is the best place ever because…
… erm, it’s probably not enough to say that Rammy (as the locals would have it) is ‘dead good’. I mean, it is. It’s proper good. But loads of people think that about the place they live in. Why...
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