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Monthly Archives: December 2012

The Unforgettable Fire – Anthony Owen’s My Father’s Eyes Were Blue

December 28, 2012

As we’d travelled to Würzburg to visit friends, there had been no mugging up in a guidebook beforehand. It felt …

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Ruined in a day – Jacob Polley’s The Havocs

December 20, 2012

Alan Bennett‘s new play, People, closes with the line ‘Let lost be lost. Let gone be gone, and not fetched back.’ …

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I am a Camera – Paul Farley’s The Dark Film

December 15, 2012

I was content to sit on the pebbles, lit by the heatless fluorescence of the winter sun and enjoying the …

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This must be underwater love – Richard Meier’s Misadventure

December 3, 2012

Cleaning the roof of my narrowboat one morning, I slipped and cartwheeled into the Thames. Despite my love of rivers, …

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