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8 January 2021 Traction

Opening the Mozart Pavilion

Theatres tend to be beautiful spaces, created with all the skill that architects, carpenters, plasterers and painters can summon. And

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3 January 2021 Traction

Take pride

In October, I wrote about a community opera being created in County Durham that had been stopped just weeks before

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4 December 2020 Regular Marvels II / Traction / Uncategorized

What we talk about when we talk about love

‘You know, while doing this, going through this journey, it has changed me. And, yes, I had a spiritual inkling,

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29 May 2019 Uncategorized

I Remember: Leicester

The books have arrived, and I’m making 12 parcels of authors’ copies and more for people who’ve helped along the

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4 May 2019 From My Life / I Remember: Leicester / Uncategorized

An unexpected revival

As I worked on it, I realised that it is another Regular Marvel,  the simplest, easiest but in some ways the most beautiful yet

25 July 2015 A Wider Horizon / Bread and Salt / Regular marvels / Winter fires

Summer’s lease

With the publication of A Wider Horizon ten days ago, this phase of the Regular Marvels idea draws to a

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14 July 2015 A Wider Horizon

A Wider Horizon – now available

A Wider Horizon is available from today. To download a digital copy, please click on the link below: Download A

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28 June 2015 A Wider Horizon

A Wider Horizon: First words

The regular marvels of rural touring Rural touring schemes are a quiet triumph of the British arts world. For 35

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8 June 2015 A Wider Horizon / Regular Marvels in Theory

A dialogue of stories

Designing the regular marvel books is always enjoyable. Visual judgements involve a different part of the mind to writing, and

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23 May 2015 Regular Marvels in Theory

Books can take care of themselves

I once bought a six-volume set of Clarendon’s History of the Rebellion. It had been printed in 1717, less than

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5 May 2015 A Wider Horizon

The difference between enjoying and participating

  The Universal Declaration of Human Rights was drafted and adopted very fast, between 1946 and 1948, by nations reacting

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24 March 2015 Regular marvels

Flowers for Kazuo Ohno (and Leonard Cohen)

Is artistic excellence really incompatible with social purpose? It’s an argument I’ve heard throughout my working life but it has

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22 March 2015 Regular marvels

A perfect delight

A delight in useless beauty is part of what makes us human. Walking down a street in Mannheim yesterday, I

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