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A Piece Of The Continent

A Piece Of The Continent

...as a dramatist, you’re not always fully in control of what happens next. This was my experience with the Syrian story. I talked to people at Oxfam. I talked to...
Dragons, Unicorns And Talking Lions

Dragons, Unicorns And Talking Lions

...talks that children could browse over my shoulder as I spoke to them on screen. I used my mantelpiece as a sort of capsule wardrobe to tell a visual story...
Asking The Right Questions

Asking The Right Questions

...a stamp, that flyaway snowy hair, Russell was distinctly handsome! Russell wants to talk about and promote his Peace Foundation, founded in 1963 (and still going). I want to talk...
Talking To The Rock ’n’ Roll Cook

Talking To The Rock ’n’ Roll Cook

...Mum is talking about is the everyday self: don’t let that self live in the foreign country of the past. As I pour hot water into the teapot, I think...
Magical Journalism

Magical Journalism

...where negotiations were under way between government and rebels. Instead of listening to the official talks, Kapuściński disappeared. He was later discovered talking to some ordinary soldiers in a rough...

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...of notes. It sounds like a robot talking. The sense of a real person talking to us has disappeared. Crucially, it’s now unclear what Hutcheon is saying about Terry Eagleton’s...
Talking To The Dead

Talking To The Dead

...it feel as if the place were inhabited only by the ghosts of the dead. I felt as if they were within earshot. Talking to the dead is what biographical...
Lowering The Drawbridge

Lowering The Drawbridge

...want to talk about is not a good place to start. The blank page becomes a nagging therapist, prodding me to stop holding back, to open up and get to...
A Sea Of Unknown Faces

A Sea Of Unknown Faces

...hidden away, out of sight, away from the crowds. Also, I look insane when I write. I talk to characters; I talk to myself. I make endless cups of tea...
Paid For Talking

Paid For Talking

In Focus: SuAndi on her late start in writing, and being 'paid for talking'....
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