A Wider Horizon
A Regular Marvel about tastes in art Did you fall for drama in your first primary school play or learn to samba in your sixties? Do you hate what they’ve done to Blandings or just prefer Borgen? Do...
View ArticleThe Light Ships
This summer, a new regular marvel will unfold in the ancient and distinctive fenlands of south east Lincolnshire. The Light Ships, which I’m doing in partnership with Transported, is: A revaluation of...
View ArticleA painful edge to oral history
The Light Ships is proving to be a revelation. An exploration of the church’s place in a community’s artistic life, it focuses on 14 villages in the Lincolnshire fenland. I’ve been meeting people...
View ArticleThe Light Ships: First Words
The fourth Regular Marvel is called The Light Ships: Church, art and community in the Lincolnshire Fens. It will be published on 8 November 2014 by Transported, at an event in Whaplode Church. In the...
View ArticleThe Light Ships launch
Last Saturday was windy and cold. A good part of my drive from Nottingham to Whaplode was through torrents of rain, but as I got closer, the weather grew calmer and I grew more anxious about The Light...
View ArticleWelcome to the house of fun
JOE: …small town. I suppose. You have to make your own fun. ANN: Everybody makes their own fun. F’you don’t make it yourself, it ain’t fun, it’s entertainment. David Mamet, State and Main, (2000)...
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