July 2012

China In Britain at Westminster Uni: Anna and Charles Shaar Murray on the bill

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I’m performing this afternoon at the China In Britain event at Westminster University, 4.45pm. It’s a talk with performance extracts from my shows and a bit of poetry. The wonderful Charles Shaar Murray is my musical accompanist, playing guitar. I’ll be referring to various topics so here are the links for you to explore further. […]

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A Routemaster named Dystopia

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Here’s what I wrote in 2008 on where the London Olympics were headed. And here’s what I wrote last month. Spooky, possums. Or maybe I was just paying attention. But even I never guessed they’d stick major military hardware on people’s homes (not the homes of the wealthy lining the Thames, note). Protesters are having

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Marks and Spencer’s frump-dump sends profits plummeting: the great bra hunt

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So profits have plummeted at Marks and Spencer, former underwear holy of holies, fallen from grace and no longer a Mecca for women on a budget who want to look nicely turned out. Heads have rolled, hands are being wrung and people want to know WHYEEE?! I’m no delphic oracle but even I can answer

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Madam Mao’s Golden Oldies: Anna on the Chinese model operas, BBC R4

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MADAM MAO’S GOLDEN OLDIESBBC Radio 4 11:30am, Tuesday 17th July 2012Presented and co-written by Anna ChenProduced by Mukti Jain Campion for Culture Wise In Madam Mao’s Golden Oldies, I revisit the Chinese Cultural Revolution Model Operas that I first heard as a child in the 1960s and 70s and discover how they are, somewhat surprisingly,

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