Really saddened to hear of the death of the legendary Paul Conroy at just 61 - one of the bravest, best and kindest of people and an astonishingly good photographer to boot.
Here is his last work for Byline Times.
www.bylinesupplement.com/p/paul-conro...
Oh my giddy aunt. Neil Kinnock on music (lack of Brits knowledge, death of Neil SedAKKA - “Breaking Up is SO Hard to Do”; remembering the song at his wedding) on Broadcasting House this morning. Stupendous.
First class work from a first class team on an economy class budget. (To which you can contribute…)
Never been happier to be a subscriber to London Centric. As the story says, "London Centric can spend the time piecing together these stories because we’re funded by subscribers willing to back proper investigative journalism and who want us to take on vested interests, and have real impact."
This was one of my absolute favourite episodes to make. What a woman. What an artist. What stories. Glorious. (Plus - the added bonus of Nancy Kerr popping in for a bit of a jam ...) #bagpuss #happybirthdaybagpuss #oldfatfurrysagpuss
Free 10-week art-history course at the Courtauld for state-school pupils this spring.
www.arthistorylinkup.org/programmes/h...
It's absolutely heartbreaking.
Yes, I know. Its terrible. When my kids were at school (4 - 5 years ago) it was used at school (very often by the better off kids with more money to spend - though I know its also very cheap). There seemed to be almost no information about its dangers.
It’s astonishing how little is known about the impact of ketamine use in universities and schools. We’re going to need a revolution in wipe down seats technology in those grad job firms …
Alastair Macaulay talks to Dame Darcey Bussell in this week's extended episode. Darcey talks about her graduation performance @royalballetschool.bsky.social and the creation in 1989 of the role of Princess Rose in Kenneth MacMillan’s The Prince of the Pagodas.
Liver Salts was my favourite
In April, I’m running a Feminist Writing retreat for writers of all genres & levels. We’ll work on how to highlight everyday sexism, describe unequal power between men & women, challenge stereotypes when portraying women and craft female-friendly language.
rachelhewitt.org/retreats/fem...
I lost my heart (and my shoes) to the shining sands of Holy Island …
But… but is there *ANY* way this could be a woman’s fault…?
‘People like Mandelson’ - except he doesn’t seem to be an especially outlierish outlier when it comes to money giddiness.
“The Orwell Prizes celebrate the year's best political writing and reporting, inspired by George Orwell's values of clarity, courage, and fidelity to truth.”
Wonder what that George Orwell would have made of the giddy-money-lust-moral-disruptor farce of Cameron era attempts to secure a meeting with Woody Allen via Jeffrey Epstein by the current chair of @orwellprize.bsky.social political writing panel, Rohan Silva? (Nice work from @londoncentric.media)
Hello teachers.
Today I recorded 35 poetry workshops for you to use with your classes. 10 are for Early Years, 25 for KS 1,2 and Year 7. These are to go with the 11 that are already up on our channel.
Thanks to
@ApplesAndSnakes
for support.
The actor prepares. The dresser discusses the high cost of US dentistry. The director pops in to bitch about a cast member. The actor (our correspondent) moans about the new weekend schedule. NY is empty on a Monday night. The dressing room speaker is switched on and the orchestra tunes up.
Testing out a new cassette tape transfer device l’m listening to a recording made in the dressing room just before a performance in 1976 of My Fair Lady in NY. Apparently Jerry Adler was in the night before and wanted to discuss his new Colonel Sanders project - a musical? a play?
In our latest episode the dancer Dianne Richards tells some wonderful stories about her time dancing with Festival Ballet including this beautiful account of the last time Dianne saw Alicia Markova dance Giselle.
Absolutely brilliant story. London Centric doing actual news investigations is one of the very best things.
What about Bold Beans creep and sudden recent similar discounting and appearance in the most unlikely of places.
Our latest episode is a conversation between Richard Alston and Alastair Macaulay. Alston explains how, as a teenager, he was entranced by watching ballet. After studying fine art, he began working on the Martha Graham technique with what became the London Contemporary Dance Theatre.
The amazing Blanche
Marvin who, when I worked foh at BAC (in the pre-historic era) would sometimes attempt to see all 3 shows in the one evening. www.whatsonstage.com/news/theatre...
Intrigued by Amol Rajan’s characterisation of the “digital creator economy” as “Narnia”. Always winter and never Xmas? Grown women not wanted (put that lipstick down, Susan!)? Plus who is he in this scenario? Lucy? Reepicheep? Aslan?
The shit cherry on the crap icing of the turd cake of zip car folding is that they are STILL TAKING MONEY FROM MY ACCOUNT.
What’s everyone doing for Helen Burns night?
An actual snowflake that landed on my coat.
Our latest podcast episode is a conversation with Violetta Elvin, one of Frederick Aston’s favourite ballerinas.
