TV
Michael Brandon takes A View from the Bridge
Northern Soul’s Rich Jevons talks to actor Michael Brandon (known to many as Dempsey from TV’s Dempsey and Makepeace) about his career and current role of Alfieri in Arthur Miller’s A View from the Bridge, set in Brandon’s birthplace, Brooklyn.
Willy Russell: “writers have to be mavericks”
In an exclusive interview, Northern Soul’s Cathy Crabb chats to playwright, musician and novelist Willy Russell.
Cucumbers and Canal Street: Russell T Davies talks to Northern Soul
There’s a real lump-in-the-throat moment part-way through the first episode of Russell T Davies’s new Channel 4 drama Cucumber.
Moving Stories: Type Motion at FACT, Liverpool
I have a friend who has just finished training as an archivist. I have an idea what this means: I think it involves blowing cobwebs off boxes of old photos while wearing a pair of rave-style white gloves, then occasionally appearing on Who Do You Think You Are? and talking Richard Madeley through his tear-jerking past.
Here’s One We Made Earlier: The Story of BBC Children’s Broadcasting
Children’s TV: you watch it for about ten years, then you spend the rest of your life sitting in the pub reminiscing (in fact, if your passport lists your occupation as ‘bad stand-up comic’, you might even make a living making cracks about it).
CBeebies’ Alex Winters talks to Northern Soul
CBeebies entered my life in late 2010 and has been an invaluable friend to me, my wife and my little boy ever since.
Here’s an exhibition we made earlier at The Lowry
Muffin the Mule. Val, John and Peter. Zammo. Teletubbies. Mr Tumble. Tracy Beaker.
Steven Mackintosh: From the Muppets to Manchester
There’s a moment in the BBC1 drama From There To Here when, not long after the IRA bomb detonates and destroys Manchester city centre, the character of Robbo stands with his hands on his head, surveying the ruins.
From There To Here: a love letter to Manchester
From There to Here is a major new BBC drama. The editor of Northern Soul met the writer Peter Bowker and director James Strong.
Aiden Byrne talks Restaurant Wars, food critics and chasing the Michelin man
Manchester hasn’t had a Michelin-starred restaurant since the year I was born. I’m 40 next month.
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.
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