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Walls Have Ears

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After the success and popularity of the Clapham Book Festival’s panel session last year about spies and spying, either real or fictional, ( see Espionage ) we decided to run a similar session this year focussing particularly on WWII and … Continue reading

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Julius Caesar

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Wednesday was my first visit to the new Bridge Theatre, the new venture from Nicholas Hytner and Nick Starr near Tower Bridge, set up to provide flexible space for new work ( especially important now that much of the West … Continue reading

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2018 Festival Round-up

Rain. That’s one lasting impression of this year’s Festival, as the official video below shows.  But it didn’t hamper our enjoyment, indeed, aside from driving us indoors – to see some rather lovely art (see Festival Art 2018) – we … Continue reading

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Royal Art

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The Royal Academy’s big New Year exhibition is Charles I, King and Collector bringing together paintings and other works collected by the seventeenth century King, many of which have since been dispersed around the world. We went along on Friday … Continue reading

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Voice of the Earth

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At Sala Paul on that wet and windy Wednesday night it all felt a bit like a party. There were foreigners in the audience, but lots of Spanish, locals, too. We were all there to see Jerezano David Carpio, singing … Continue reading