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19 January 2015 A Wider Horizon

Welcome to the house of fun

JOE: …small town. I suppose. You have to make your own fun.
 ANN: Everybody makes their own fun. F’you don’t

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15 October 2014 Regular marvels / The Light Ships

The Light Ships: First Words

The fourth Regular Marvel is called The Light Ships: Church, art and community in the Lincolnshire Fens. It will be

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30 May 2014 The Light Ships

An ancient art

The Light Ships website has been growing with short posts that touch on the rich and varied artistic life of

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2 February 2014 From My Life

A Chorus of Solidarity

‘Pete Seeger’s great work was not just singing the songs, but getting everybody else to sing them—getting his audience, us,

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26 January 2014 Winter fires

Dancing down the years

The pleasures of one generation are often incomprehensible to another. I first heard the phrase ‘Old Time and Sequence Dancing’

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4 August 2013 A Wider Horizon

The value of taking your time

The landscape of the Fens remains impervious to the 21st century’s need for speed. Elsewhere trunk roads have been transformed

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29 September 2012 Winter fires

‘Winter Fires’ publication date

Winter Fires, Art and Agency in Old Age will be published by Baring Foundation on 27 November 2012 and will be

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28 May 2012 Where we dream

‘Where We Dream’ on BBC local radio

‘Where We Dream’ has just featured on Adrian Goldberg’s BBC WM Radio morning show. He interviewed Sarah Moors, one of

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30 April 2012 Where we dream

‘Where We Dream’ published

Everybody’s a dreamer… Almost a year ago, I began a series of conversations with people in West Bromwich about their

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18 April 2012 Where we dream

Overture and beginners

Birmingham, late November 2011, early evening. Along New Street and around the Town Hall, the Christmas Market offers glühwein and

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