Anyone who tore through Steve Chambers’ first thriller has had to wait quite a long time for his second — 11 years, to be exact. Worth the wait, though, I’d say. The Dark Months, set mostly in rural Northumberland and full of tension and lethal skulduggery, is that publisher’s dream, a page-turner. There’s 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 — 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 ‘favourite theatre’ – so we can only imagine he’s as happy as everyone else that he’s returning to its stage later this year. A limited run of four performances on Player …
Behind every artwork lies a story and Baltic’s latest Open Submission exhibition represents a veritable anthology with 104 submissions having made the cut. “We were aiming for 100 but snuck in an extra four,” smiles Baltic assistant curator Rose McMurray who was on the judging panel. That’s understandable, given the numbers involved here — a …
A full house is expected for this year’s Newcastle Writing Conference for which tickets go on sale today (March 20). Writing may be a solitary activity but that doesn’t mean all writers are solitary people. Grace Keane, senior programme manager at New Writing North, says it’s 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 William’s 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*. *Can’t 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 weren’t built with them in mind. “As the saying goes, if you’ve met one autistic person, you’ve met one autistic person,” she says talking about her award-winning …
They’re putting on a performance for Ray Spencer at The Customs House. Two, actually. No, wait… they’ve added a third. Correction: they’re putting on three performances of Celeb-RAY-tion at The Customs House this weekend, celebrating Ray’s 25 years at the helm of the riverside arts centre he has steered through often choppy waters. Naturally, they’re …
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