Articles relating to: Caroline Aherne
“If you avoid serious subjects, comedy isn’t funny” Henry Normal talks to Northern Soul
He promises poems about “death, human frailty and other classic conversation stoppers”. As pitches go for a literature event hoping to put bums on seats, it’s not your run of the mill promotion. But Henry Normal isn’t your conventional fella.
Read the full story..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.
Read the full story..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.
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