Few people have had as great an impact on Manchester’s cultural landscape, primarily through his stewardship of the Library Theatre for 27 crucial years, as Chris Honer, who died on November 3 at Wythenshawe Hospital from...
Read MoreChristopher Paul ‘CP’ Lee, who has died aged 70, was a man whose whole life was driven by enthusiasm. Born on January 19, 1950, he grew up in Didsbury and made his public debut as a teenager at a Fallowfield folk...
Read MoreNever meet your heroes, they say. Blow that, I thought. It was the autumn of 2001 and I had the chance to invite one of my lifelong idols, the visionary scriptwriter Nigel Kneale, to a screening of his work at Cornerhouse in...
Read MoreFrills, coiffures and moustaches were at half-mast following the announcement that Peter Wyngarde, or Petunia Winegum as he was known in his queer circles, had passed away. Of course, this means that the only person left on...
Read MoreIt’s an afternoon of images. It’s an afternoon of love. The images are both actual and imagined. Many of the former are black and white, full of smiles and scowls and twinkling eyes, rescued fragments of decades past. The latter...
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