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Haunted by Gesualdo
Playwright Shaun McCarthy couldn’t get Don Carlo Gesualdo out of his head, so he put him on stage. The dark,…
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A Cat Named Lonesome
Poet and novelist Tom Bryan ponders the writers who chose to disappear – and those who disappeared anyway. A walk…
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Sudanese Soap
Annie Caulfield ventures to South Sudan to work on a radio soap. Tribal hostilities, polygamous jealousies and farming disasters are…
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The Dead House
An ambulant audio story by Peter Guttridge doesn’t so much respond to the spirit of a Scarborough cemetery as actually…
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Writers Writing About Writers Writing
Charles Jennings descends into his own, private hell of self-reflexive novelising. Saul Bellow, Philip Roth, Doris Lessing, John Fowles, A.S.…
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Death And The Dartford Warbler
After his father’s death, Jonathan Tulloch writes for the first time about his relationship with the man and his notebook…
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An Anglo-Saxon Heroine
Sue Purkiss goes digging for Alfred and turns up Aethelflaed instead. Researching a children’s book set in the time of…
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Setting Words With Honour
Times New Roman? Jonathan Falla would as soon serve malt whisky in a styrofoam cup. As a young man, Jonathan…
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Death and Texas
Jill Dawson travels to Fort Worth, Texas, and finds the source of Patricia Highsmith’s pain. A ‘little hell’ was how…
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Warp and Weft
Katharine Quarmby explores how adoption shapes the writer’s identity. As a transracial adoptee, Katharine Quarmby wondered if her family stories…
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Unseen But Not Unsung
Ron Butlin offers a backstage tour of the opera librettist’s strange and specialised world. Writers are not often told ‘the…
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Tumbling Down Joyce’s Stairs
Roopa Farooki ‘leans in’ to Joyce’s masterpiece. The best way to challenge the anxiety of influence, for Roopa Farooki, was…