Monthly Archives: October 2016
Northern Soul chats to arch-drude, Julian Cope
Ah, Julian Cope, arch-drude and all-round bluddy fantastic musician.
Vera, Shetland and the North: Ann Cleeves talks to Northern Soul
“She’s driving from her home towards Newcastle but that’s the Holy Island causeway and that clearly isn’t right.”
Review: Manchester Museum, Extinction or Survival?
The first two objects in Manchester Museum’s new exhibition Extinction or Survival? are a model of a dodo and a stuffed panda. One is extinct, of course. And the other has been brought back from the brink of extinction, thanks to the efforts of conservationists across the globe.
Fleetneedles Forage: The Magic of the Elder Tree
A few weeks ago I bought a copy of Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tales.
Win tickets to the Fizz Festival, Altrincham
WIN A PAIR OF TICKETS TO THE FIZZ FESTIVAL IN ALTRINCHAM
The Northern Soul Podcast: Manchester Literature Festival
Ah, the Manchester Literature Festival. It’s proper good.
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Taking on Toad: Rufus Hound talks to Northern Soul about Wind in the Willows
By any standards, launching a big-budget musical is a huge risk. Nor do you make it any easier for yourself by basing said musical on a much-loved property (mess with cherished notions or characters and you can come a cropper).
Breaking the Code: we talk to Daniel Rigby about playing Alan Turing
In the summer of 1997, Manchester’s Royal Exchange Theatre staged a new adaptation of Pierre Corneille’s 17th century comedy The Illusion, starring Trevor Baxter and Julia Sawalha. One entranced young audience member was 15 year-old Stockport lad Daniel Rigby who was making his first ever visit to the venue on a college outing.
Yves Klein at Tate Liverpool: we talk to curator Darren Pih
It seems obvious to me now that Yves Klein‘s Leap into the Void was a fake.
Where’s Whaley? From Manchester to North Shields to Amsterdam – and back again
As a young boy visiting my grandparents in Perthshire, I was told the story of a white rabbit which supposedly lived wild in a small glen just outside Gleneagles.
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