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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.
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
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.
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.
My old dad considered himself a scientist and never had much time for what he called ´this arty-farty writing malarkey.
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 .´
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.”
The inaugural I Love MCR Awards brought together over 750 most-loved people in what was the biggest awards event the city has ever seen.
The Jesus and Mary Chain are set to return with a new album in 2024
SIDETRACKS & DETOURS: 7 / 12 / 25 classical, jazz, folk, rock, americana; songwriters & invisible angels7th December 2025 - 7:00 am
SIDETRACKS & DETOURS Pass It On 2/11/2025 Jenny Bray, Nash and Asher, Opus 222nd November 2025 - 7:00 am
A LITTLE BUNDLE OF SUMMER. sidetracks & detours 3rd September 2025 featuring Jazz Artist, Jenny Bray. Broadcaster and writer, Steve Bewick, Expo Folk and Sound Roots3rd September 2025 - 7:00 am