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Review of The Beatles Let It Be musical, Prince of Wales Theatre

I was pleasantly surprised to find that the new Beatles musical, Let It Be, was pretty good in a superior tribute-band kind of way. Above, my review in the Morning Star on why it did not suck. Madam Miaow says … visit Anna Chen’s website here: Home Anna’s food blog here: http://annacheneats.blogspot.com/

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Anna hosts Lucky Cat hour on Resonance FM 104.4 this Saturday

I’m standing in for Zoe Baxter this weekend, reading from my poetry collection REACHING FOR MY GNU, accompanied by Charles Shaar Murray on guitar. My guests will be travel writer Navjot Singh who lives and works in China and has witnessed some startling changes since his first visit in 2003. Plus Hi Ching, performer and

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Jimmy Savile and Freddy Krueger: separated at birth, united in your nightmares

“Now then, now then. How’s about that, then, guys and gals?” What adds the extra dimension of horror to the revelations about Sir Jimmy Savile OBE’s sexual predilections, quelle surprise, is the power involved. Not just that the BBC and police, as huge institutions, closed ranks around their star — they do that all the

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REACHING FOR MY GNU No 3 in Kindle free poetry behind Beowulf and The Iliad.

Hilarious, delightful and most cheering. After the free download day for my poetry book on Amazon to mark National Poetry Day, Reaching for my Gnu has hit number 3 in the Kindle free poetry list in Bestsellers out of THOUSANDS. Look, pictorial proof that my baby did well. Thank you to everyone who downloaded my

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National Poetry Day: REACHING FOR MY GNU free download for 24 hours from Amazon

If all goes well on the technical side of things, to mark National Poetry Day, I’m making my “brilliant and dangerous” poetry collection — Reaching for my Gnu — available as a free download from Amazon for 24 hours from around 8am (midnight Pacific Standard Time) today. Then it’s back to £4.99, a bargain. There

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