Stan Graham's Leisure Guide for North and West Yorkshire
I was unsure about what to expect from this play written and acted by Alys Williams. What I got was a powerful reenactment of a period of her life when all seemed lost. Please don’t let that put you off as there is plenty of humour and music to lighten, literally, the mood, in spite…
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In the words of the song from South Pacific, there is nothing like a dame. If anyone needed proof then they should have been at Howard Assembly Room on 2nd October listening to Dame Sarah Connelly. She gave the most amazing performance of a variety of songs from Brahms to Weill. There was also the…
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I can’t remember ever being so irritated and annoyed by a piece of work, partly because of the upsetting subject matter but also by the way in which it was written and produced, negating all of the valid points by reducing them to cliches. The play, adapted by Dave Johns from the film by Ken…
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Leeds International Festival of Ideas 2023 was brought to a close by this ‘fireside chat’ between two people for whom I have the greatest admiration. I have had the pleasure of interviewing Lisa Holdsworth, the Leeds writer, on behalf of a publication I once worked for. She was very gracious in sparing me her time…
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As I am always on the lookout as to where I can stash the family fortune I thought that I would pop along to find out more about cryptocurrency. There can be few people more qualified to discuss this topic than Sir Jon Cunliffe, Deputy Governor of The Bank of England for Financial Stability, and…
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It’s that time of year again when the Opera North Winter Season begins. The various environmental groups will be pleased to read that it has been renamed The Green Season as all of the productions conform to the Theatre Green Book standards which sets out new benchmarks for sustainability. What might upset them though is…
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I was looking forward to this event as it echoes something which we did in college in the mid-sixties when I was doing my A Level Law. We looked at the way in which we lived our lives and were then told how many laws we had broken, accidentally, obviously. I thought it interesting to…
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I admit to not knowing a great deal about sculpture, in fact you could write my entire canon of expertise on the back of a Christo work. In the spirit of my writing, I am open to experiencing and learning about unfamiliar aspects of all forms of art, I jumped at the chance to witness…
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At lunchtime on 26th May, 1967 a group of us sent our friend David to Valances Record and Electrical Shop in what is now Dortmund Square. We were at Park Lane College, which had just changed its name from Leeds College of Commerce, and we had entrusted him with our spending money as he had…
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My life seems to have been a series of happy, and sometimes, unhappy accidents, but I have always been able to put a spin on the latter to obtain a positive outcome. What happened on Wednesday evening was most certainly in the former category. I was sitting in the cafe at Leeds Playhouse grabbing a…
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