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4 October 2015
A Beautiful Mind - Review
A classic film that is still held in high regard to this day.
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2 October 2015
Feminism and the Impact of the Digital Age
Bath Literature Festival has been showing a great variety of female content ahead of today's International Women's Day. Yesterday, I headed to Feminism and the Impact of the Digital Age, with Sarah Brown, Suzanne Moore, and Bath Festivals' own, Viv Groskop.
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2 October 2015
Fashion on the Ration
Yesterday I headed to a fun and enlightening talk at Bath Literature Festival. Fashion on the Ration focussed on the styles that sprung out of utility clothing and the surprising influence of Vogue during the war years.
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2 October 2015
Around the world in ten books
A fun and enlightening end to a weekend at Bath Festivals, Scott Peck and Ann Morgan picked their top ten books from around the world.
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2 October 2015
Review – Fightstar: “Grand Unification”
These hard-rocking heroes from London faced a lot of criticism due to frontman Charlie Simpson's previous pop career with Busted (now McBusted…). However, views soon changed when they exploded on to the scene with their debut back in 2006… (Honestly. It's that good. Everything exploded)
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30 September 2015
Review: The BBC's Lady Chatterly's Lover
The recent TV adaptation may not have remained faithful, but it does shed new light on the classic.
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30 September 2015
Danny Wallace and Jamie Littler at Bath Children's Literature Festival
Danny Wallace is a natural fit as a children's author, achieving that nigh on impossible adult trait of speaking to children as equals.
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27 September 2015
Classic Stories with Kate Saunders and Holly Webb
Should classic books be sacred? And, if you do choose to revamp or serialise a classic, how should you go about it?
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26 September 2015
Judith Kerr at Bath Children’s Literature Festival
Witnessing the brilliant Judith Kerr in conversation at Bath Children's Literature Festival, it's great find the renowned author is still at such a creative highpoint.
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19 September 2015
Harrogate at Hightide Festival
Harrogate is a play that slowly gets under your skin until, before you know it, you feel you need a good scrub to get it all out. Brilliant, but utterly twisted.
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18 September 2015
So Here We Are at Hightide Festival
Luke Norris has created a script for So Here We Are that is so tightly packed with laughs, that the ending — despite its inevitability — can't help but rip your guts out.
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26 August 2015
The Orchid and the Crow
Did you know that there's a Bristol in Australia? Me neither. Well, I do now, and so do you.
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26 August 2015
A Pocketful of Grimms
Rumplestiltskin, Hansel and Gretle, The Original Beauty and the Beast, The Bird, the mouse, and the sausage. Four tales, all oddly to do with food.
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24 August 2015
Christian O'Connell: You've Ruined My Morning...And Other Fan Mail
You'd expect Christian O'Connell, celebrated breakfast radio DJ, to come out and express an infectious confidence and have a wide presence on stage. You wouldn't be disappointed.
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24 August 2015
Morgan Berry: Watership Down
Rabbits, a Carwash and a Bafrican. No, that's not a typo.
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24 August 2015
Chris Martin: This show has a soundtrack
No, it's not that Chris Martin. Although, oddly, he has the same middle name.
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22 August 2015
What is Luxury?
I visited the Victoria and Albert museum with Derby Museums and Art Gallery.