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19 June 2014 The Light Ships

A painful edge to oral history

The Light Ships is proving to be a revelation. An exploration of the church’s place in a community’s artistic life,

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24 February 2014 From My Life / Winter fires

‘Every day in life is beautiful’

‘Music is in the first place of art. It brings us on an island with peace, beauty and love. Music

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20 February 2014 From My Life

Music matters

A quick post to highlight a radio programme called The Folklorist, about Izzy Young, who was central to the Greenwich Village

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8 February 2014 Regular Marvels in Theory

RMT2 – Citation

Why do writers quote other writers? The reasons are complex, and do not preclude such weaknesses as showing off—no one

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5 January 2014 Regular Marvels in Theory

Richard Sennett

Philosophy Bites is a podcast that has been produced since 2007 by David Edmonds and Nigel Warburton. In the spirit

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26 October 2013 A Wider Horizon

Art is not a zero-sum game

‘If you love it here, you love the bleakness and the vast flat sky and landscape.’ A few weeks ago,

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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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17 July 2013 Bread and Salt

A Swiss perspective on art and migration

«For a Swiss, I am a Japanese and for a Japanese I am a Swiss or rather a gaijin.» Pro

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12 June 2013 Winter fires

You’ve got to laugh

It’s an old-fashioned ladies hairdressers’, on a down-at-heel high road in the West Midlands. The owner – let’s call her

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1 June 2013 Bread and Salt

Against Frankenstein

‘Hope today is a contraband passed from hand to hand and from story to story.’ John Berger, Bento’s Sketchbook, 2011

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