Book Review: Rare Singles by Benjamin Myers
Writing a pop song is more difficult than it looks. Compressing the poetic with the melodic in...
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Tales of a small mountain: Loughrigg in the Lakes
For many visitors to the Lakes, their favourite mountain is Loughrigg. For the people who live...
Read MoreBook Review: Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler
This year marks the centenary of the Russian Revolution. In the third of a series of articles for Northern Soul, Alfred Searls explores how 1917 – and the Soviet society which developed in its shadow – has been...
Read MoreVera, 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.” So says my Dad (repeatedly) who is, like me, an avid viewer of Vera, the...
Read MoreAlexei Sayle talks to Northern Soul
There’s a moment in Thatcher Stole My Trousers – Alexei Sayle’s new volume of memoirs covering his ascent to comedy stardom – in which he finally gets to pass through the doors of London’s Capital Radio for the...
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