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Happiness and Tears: comedy historian Louis Barfe talks about his new biography of Ken Dodd
What springs to mind when you think of Ken Dodd?
Read the full story..Tastes of Honey: Shelagh Delaney biographer Selina Todd talks to Northern Soul
In April 1958, London-based theatre director Joan Littlewood received a package in the post from 19-year-old Shelagh Delaney of Duchy Road, Salford.
Read the full story..Jane Austen at Home: Northern Soul talks to TV historian Lucy Worsley
“She was very intolerant of foolishness, vanity, empty talk, obsequiousness, time-wasting, cruelty.”
Read the full story..Review: Outsiders – Five Women Who Changed the World by Lyndall Gordon, Manchester Literature Festival
I’m tired of being told what a woman should and shouldn’t say.
Read the full story..Into the Unknown: The Fantastic Life of Nigel Kneale
These days, Nigel Kneale isn’t a name that’s generally recognised by the man in the street.
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