Anyone who tore through Steve Chambersโ first thriller has had to wait quite a long time for his second โ 11 years, to be exact. Worth the wait, though, Iโd say. The Dark Months, set mostly in rural Northumberland and full of tension and lethal skulduggery, is that publisherโs dream, a page-turner. Thereโs a precedent …
It had to be a first. Never before, surely, within the beautiful debating chamber at Newcastle Civic Centre, has anybody raised the prospect of shrink-wrapping local residents. Feasibly it could have been mulled over as a punishment for some civic misdemeanour โ non-payment of council tax, perhaps, or serial bus lane infringement. It might even …
Theatre Royal box office on alert as the return of Sir Ian McKellen is announced Sir Ian McKellen once hailed Newcastle Theatre Royal his โfavourite theatreโ – so we can only imagine heโs as happy as everyone else that heโs returning to its stage later this year. A limited run of four performances on Player …
Behind every artwork lies a story and Balticโs latest Open Submission exhibition represents a veritable anthology with 104 submissions having made the cut. โWe were aiming for 100 but snuck in an extra four,โ smiles Baltic assistant curator Rose McMurray who was on the judging panel. Thatโs understandable, given the numbers involved here โ a …
A full house is expected for this yearโs Newcastle Writing Conference for which tickets go on sale today (March 20). Writing may be a solitary activity but that doesnโt mean all writers are solitary people. Grace Keane, senior programme manager at New Writing North, says itโs been five years since the conference last took place. …
The shimmering centrepiece of a major museum is back in daily action for the first time in four years. The 250-year-old automaton Silver Swan at the Bowes Museum in Barnard Castle, County Durham, returned to its daily performance duties on Tuesday, March 19, after a lengthy conservation overhaul. And the swan project has been shortlisted …
The true story of a young orphaned choirboy, whose scribbled plea to be remembered was found more than 100 years after he wrote it, will be told in a new BBC audio play. North East production company Sister Sounds have produced Williamโs Castle which will be broadcast on Radio 4 on the afternoon of April …
About 15 years ago, I invented something which was pretty nifty. It was a piece of breastfeeding underwear which made every top a breastfeeding top, so new and nursing mums could get back into their favourite clothes while keeping their postnatal tummy comfortably wrapped up*. *Canโt tell you how easily the marketing spiel just tripped …
As a parent of autistic children, writer Jill Franklin has spent many years seeing how they have been misunderstood while trying to find a way through systems which werenโt built with them in mind. โAs the saying goes, if youโve met one autistic person, youโve met one autistic person,โ she says talking about her award-winning …
Theyโre putting on a performance for Ray Spencer at The Customs House. Two, actually. No, waitโฆ theyโve added a third. Correction: theyโre putting on three performances of Celeb-RAY-tion at The Customs House this weekend, celebrating Rayโs 25 years at the helm of the riverside arts centre he has steered through often choppy waters. Naturally, theyโre …
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