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The uncertain pirate
I first met Sam Conniff on board a pirate ship – an event on the Golden Hinde, organised for people to connect around the ideas in Sam’s book, Be More Pirate. A great friend and I had gone to talk…
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Why my biography of folk producer Bill Leader is really a social history of the Twentieth Century
When I set out to write a biography of Bill Leader, the legendary sound recordist, what I pictured myself writing about was the music, of course. Those early recordings of…
Interview with Kevin Leach, technical manager at Oldham Coliseum
Kevin thankfully managed to secure a new position for himself as Stage Manager at Manchester Opera House, luckily keeping one of our most skilled theatre technicians in the North West,…
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