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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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25 October 2014 Regular marvels / Regular Marvels in Theory / Uncategorized

An antidote for visual satiety

  In a world saturated with pictures, the work of artists is very vulnerable and very important –vulnerable because it

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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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16 September 2014 Regular marvels

The spirit of independence

The Independent Theatre Council is celebrating its 40th birthday today, with an event at the Royal Festival Hall in London.

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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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27 April 2014 A Wider Horizon

Back to rural touring

Yesterday afternoon, I met three people who promote the arts at Hindolveston Village Hall, in Norfolk. They mentioned, in passing,

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1 April 2014 The Light Ships

The Light Ships

This summer, a new regular marvel will unfold in the ancient and distinctive fenlands of south east Lincolnshire. The Light

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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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16 February 2014 A Wider Horizon

Local accents

The tension between city and countryside, capital and regions, centre and periphery is ancient and probably inevitable, because of the

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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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