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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 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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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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3 June 2014 Regular marvels

Speaking in tongues

Words captivated me first: then stories. As a small child, I didn’t always follow the story or care if I

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19 March 2014 Regular Marvels in Theory

Testing the rules

Human beings exist in language. Words and people change each other constantly. The meaning of words shifts as they slip

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2 March 2014 From My Life

Restless meanings

Classical music is as important as photography in Terence Davies’ elegiac film about the people and city of Liverpool in

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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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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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