St Ives & Me: BBC R4 11.30am Thursday 1st December 2011Available to listen on iPlayer for seven days Put a face to the voices: pix here St Ives, a Cornish seaside town 300 miles from comedian and poet Anna Chen’s London home has been attracting artists for two centuries. A varied assortment of eccentrics, entrepreneurs […]
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First night done. Tec hitches aplenty but all performed with great gusto and fun by myself and the wonderful Charles Shaar Murray and The Plague’s Marc Jefferies, rockin’ the show on guitar and bass. I’m still making last minute changes to the script which is now at the stage where I can start cutting like
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Last night I finally finished off the first draft of Anna May Wong Must Die!. I’ve been thinking about this even before 2008, when I made a BBC Radio 4 programme on one of my heroines, A Celestial Star In Piccadilly, about Hollywood’s first Chinese screen legend, Anna May Wong (broadcast January 2009). I’d originally
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Last night’s Farrago Summer Poetry Slam, hosted by the tireless John Paul O’Neill, was another wonderful evening of poetry from a wide range of performers. I love these events as they allow beginners to try their material in a friendly atmosphere, as well as veterans of the circuit like Fran Landesman, now in her 80s,
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Went to Farrago’s excellent Poetry Slam last night and busted my competition cherry with Daddy Freud and Anna May Wong Must Die! I was a bit nervous with Daddy Freud but AMWMD was going great guns and I was well into my stride when disaster struck and I forgot the last verse. But, here for
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So there I am, sandwiched between Georges Galloway and Monbiot (sounds positively Sheridanesque, Richard Brinsley, not the other guy) sending birthday greetings to the People’s Republic of China on Radio 2’s Jeremy Vine Show. They wanted it kept short, around a minute, and in the form of a birthday card with achievements, hopes and fears,
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