2023 – All Across the Arts

Sidetracks And Detours present PASS IT ON 33 weekly walkabout 31st December 2023

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education, entertainment, Literary

THE BOY WHO GAZED AT THE MOON

Kevin Kennedy played Caractacus Potts in the Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Singapore Tour, becoming the first actor to have played both Caractacus Potts and The Child Catcher.

education, entertainment, Performing Arts

ON MEETING LEANNE BATTERSBY

have happy memories of conducting a live interview with Jane Danson in front of around 400 people at the 2015 Annual Rochdale Literary And Ideas Festival

culture and tradition, Literary, Performing Arts

WHEN HAYLEY CAME A CROPPER

When researching a story biography for a forthcoming subject on these pages I was, for reasons that will subsequently become obvious, reminded me of the fictional Coronation Street character of Hayley Cropper.

culture and tradition, education, entertainment

ACTING FOR COMMUNAL GOOD

Her most famous role to date has been as Hayley Cropper in the ITV soap Coronation Street after first appearing open the cobbles in 1998.

culture and tradition, protest, sidetracks and detours

BODDINGTONS´: The Cream Of The World?

My old dad considered himself a scientist and never had much time for what he called ´this arty-farty writing malarkey.

AATA, culture and tradition, entertainment

Sidetracks And Detours present PASS IT ON 32 weekly walkabout Sunday, 24th December 2023

So tonight´s Place For Poetry was in a town square, in the shadow of a Theatre´, lit by fairy lights illuminating the fountain and the wishing well .´

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MANCHESTER BOOKED UP

In her memoir, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?, Jeanette Winterson locates the city of her birth with a laser-guided accuracy: “Manchester is in the south of the north of England,” she writes. “Its spirit has a contrariness … at once untamed and unmetropolitan; yet at the same time, connected and worldly.”