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Category Archives: radio drama
Stop,Look,Listen…my weekly selection of favourite films, books and events to get you out of the house
Watch…… Selma….its 1965 and in this small town in Alabama black people make up 50% of the population but only 2% have been allowed to vote. This is the story of the campaign in Selma to get the vote and … Continue reading
Posted in anti-cuts, drama, education, films, human rights, labour history, radio drama, Uncategorized
Tagged Martin Luther King, Portico Library, Selma, Shrewsbury 24, Sibelius, Simon Rattle
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Stop,Look,Listen…my weekly selection of favourite films, books and events to get you out of the house
Watch…. .Big Eyes (general release)..the real life story of artist Margaret Keane. In the late 50s she fled one husband with her child to pursue her life as an artist only to meet up with William Keane who pretended to … Continue reading
Posted in anti-cuts, art exhibition, drama, education, feminism, films, human rights, labour history, Middle East, music, radio drama, Uncategorized
Tagged Jim Allen, Margaret Keane, PJ Harvey, shaker aamer, Slapp Happy, Stanley Spencer
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Stop,Look,Listen…my weekly selection of favourite films, books and events to get you out of the house
Watch… the Northern premiere of GMO OMG…presented by Manchester Film Co-op, in association with GM Free GM and Ethical Consumer, a film by Jeremy Seifert, taking place as part of the Levenshulme Food and Drink Festival. GMO OMG director Jeremy … Continue reading
Stop,Look,Listen…my weekly selection of favourite films, books and events to get you out of the house
Watch.. The Happy Lands (2012) Set in Fife in Scotland in 1926, it uses a combination of dramatic scenes, archive film and local people as actors to tell the story of the miners’ strike which lasted from May to November. … Continue reading
Posted in anti-cuts, art exhibition, drama, feminism, films, labour history, Manchester, NHS, political women, radio drama, Socialist Feminism, Tameside, Uncategorized, women
Tagged Anne Scargill, days of hope, Grayson Perry
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Stop,Look,Listen…my weekly selection of favourite films, books and events to get you out of the house
Watch…..two films and hear some live music…Manchester Film Cooperative’s next event is at the Antwerp Mansion in downtown Rusholme. Antwerp Mansion is: a renovation project, aiming to turn a beautiful but run down Victorian Mansion into a Music, Art and … Continue reading
Posted in anti-cuts, biography, feminism, films, human rights, Manchester, music, NHS, Palestine, political women, radio drama, Socialist Feminism, Uncategorized, women, young people
Tagged Everything But the Girl, news from nowhere bookshop, Oldham libraries, Selma James, tracey Thorn
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Political Women (10) Alice Nutter
Alice Nutter … Formerly in Chumbawamba, now a regular scriptwriter for TV and radio, Alice is from a working class family in Burnley, Lancashire: It’s a myth that all working class people are leftwing. My parents were weavers, but were … Continue reading
Posted in anti-cuts, Communism, drama, education, feminism, human rights, labour history, music, political women, radio drama, Socialism, Socialist Feminism, TV drama, women, young people
Tagged Alice Nutter, Chumbawamba, feminism, Jim Allen, plan c
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Stop! Look! Listen! a weekly selection of some of my favourite films/books/people…
Watch… Shabby Tiger. Made by Granada TV in 1973 it’s the adaptation of a novel by Howard Spring. Set in 1930’s Manchester, it’s the love story between an artist and an Irish waitress, and the story of how the depression … Continue reading
Posted in Communism, drama, films, labour history, Manchester, music, novels, radio drama, Socialism, TV drama, women
Tagged christine Hargreaves, d h lawrence, Gerry Driver, hannah mitchell, howard spring, Kathleen Ferrier, Pablo Neruda, saturday night fever, shabby tiger, shelagh delaney, Speech Project, The Daughter in Law, Working Class Movement Library
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Stop! Look! Listen! a weekly selection of some of my favourite films/books/people…
Watch… The film Frida (2002). A fictionalised account of the life of Mexican artist and political activist Frida Kahlo (1907-54). Her pictures tell the story of her life. Crippled in an accident as a young woman she portrayed this experience … Continue reading
Posted in films, Irish second generation, labour history, music, novels, radio drama, Socialism, trade unions, women
Tagged Alice Nutter, Frida Kahlo, Gustav Holst, Louise Raw, Maude Casey, Moy Mccrory
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