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Review: CBBC’s The Worst Witch, Manchester Town Hall
As a list of magical ingredients, it’s hard to beat. Manchester Town Hall on a Sunday afternoon in the run-up to Christmas with the festive German Market in full swing outside, playing host to several hundred excited children who have come to take part in a range of bespoke themed activities, all culminating in a gala preview screening of the first episode of a new CBBC adaptation of a modern classic.
Review: To Walk Invisible, BBC, Hebden Bridge Picture House
It is a cold, wet and windy night in Hebden Bridge.
![Childrens Ward Series One Generic Jack the trolley man [Ken Parry] reluctantly serves his customers who love to wind him up. Clockwise from left: Dawn Khatir [Leyla Nejad], Alex Walker-Green [Robert Fenton], Ben Croft [Kim Burton], George [Laurence Porter], Keely Johnson [Jenny Luckraft], Tiffany Kendal [Kate Emma-Davies], and Darren Walsh [William Ash] Copyright Granada Television](https://www.northernsoul.me.uk/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/ChildrensWardGeneric-440x247.jpg)
Granada @ 60: a celebration of Granadaland
There are many candidates which could lay claim to being the North’s most iconic landmark, from football stadiums to stately homes.
Northern Soul talks to Cookie Monster, Big Bird and Elmo at The Furchester Hotel
Midway through my chat with Cookie Monster, I ask him if his diet extends to anything non-cookie related and, if so, what?
Handbags at Dawn: Archers fans go to war on Facebook
Call me middle class, but accept that I’m from working class stock.
“Britain has become Royston Vasey” – Mark Gatiss talks to Northern Soul
“Britain has become Royston Vasey and we’ve never had any credit for it.”
Queen of the Shrews: a tribute to Jean Alexander and Hilda Ogden
The thing with shrews is this: no matter how piercing or shrill, they’re very clever.
The day I met Bet Lynch in a bathroom showroom
I’ve learnt many things in this life, one of them being this: if you get an email from your editor asking if you’d like to join Julie Goodyear for some Corrie-related gardening, you say yes.
Caroline Aherne: Manchester remembers a comedy great
It seems amiss that despite having written about the Manchester stand-up scene for 17 years, I neither met nor interviewed Caroline Aherne.
Caroline Aherne: a tribute
In the first of our tributes to the comedian, writer and actress Caroline Aherne, who died earlier this month, Northern Soul’s Gerry Potter writes about a very special person.
Freerange Comedy Festival at Brewery Arts Centre Kendal
Comedy fans who can’t make Harry and Meghan’s big day at Windsor Castle can experience a ‘Royal Wedding’ with a difference in Kendal this May at Freerange Comedy Festival, hosted by Brewery Arts Centre.
The Northern Soul Poll
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