View of the London Olympics site less than a month before the games, passing through on the train. Plus the day the Olympic Torch arrived in Ipswich. This is as much of the live stuff that I want to see of the Dystopian Olympics. The rest will be enjoyed from my sofa where I can […]
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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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David Lee-Jones as Richard III Britain’s first Chinese Richard III — David Lee-Jones — is currently on national tour from Scotland until 22nd August at the Penlee Park Open Air Theatre in Penzance. I was part of a rehearsed reading of The Other Shore last year at the New Diorama where David’s presence and gravitas
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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 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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Coming soon to an eReader near you, my first collection of poetry, the very fine “Reaching for my Gnu” on Aaaargh Press. Designed by Paul Anderson, adorned with my favourite pic of me by Sukey Parnell, and with an intro by Charles Shaar Murray. Watch this space … Madam Miaow says … visit Anna Chen’s
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