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Good Blessings – Ian Clayton Introduction
Good Blessings
We were tucking into a delicious Sunday morning boarding house fry-up and our Edward said, ‘Have you seen the artwork the Tibetan Monks have been doing?’ I had to confess that I hadn’t. I told him that I’d had a cup of tea with three of them and I’d smiled when I saw them [...]
Contributors to Stories From A World Of Music
Stories From A World of Music
Giving thanks for sharing their stories:
Jude Abbott
John Allsopp
Fiona Barnard
Steve Barnard
Sue Bateman
Irene Becker
Drew Black
David Boardman
Quentin Budworth
Steve Burns
Sheila Carmicheal
Rob Carmicheal
Penny Chaloner
Sean Chandler
Edward Clayton
Ian Clayton
Christine Cleaves
Glenn Coggin
John Colledge
Nick Cooper
Fiona Cooper
Mary Coughlan
Lenore Craggs
Ian Daley
Egbert Derix
Ryan Dockray
Phil Dodd
Sarah E A Drummond
Jim Eldon
Dewi Llwyd Evans
David Fearnley
Carol Ferguson
Ian Ferguson
Neil Ferguson
Terry Flynn
Sue Green
Liz Hames
Gary Hammond
Jon Harrison
Keith Hawley
Nicky Hollins
David [...]
Operation Phantom Fury
A Scottish Soldier looks back on the horrors of Fallujah. A short script by Paul Laverty.
Extract – Even the Rain Introduction
Around ten years ago the brilliant historian Howard Zinn got in contact with me after seeing a film called Bread and Roses, directed by Ken Loach and written by myself. He wondered whether I might be interested in writing a script inspired by the spirit of the first chapter of his iconic book A People’s [...]
Sample Story – Feud
A sample story from The Invisible Village
Feud
You know why we came to England? Because my mother and mother-in-law family have a blood feud. You know what that means? It means that one family kill somebody and my family have to kill somebody too. Then the first family have to kill another one. It is a [...]
Extract – M Y Alam Introduction
An extract from M Y Alam’s introduction to The Invisible Village
‘Given the relatively recent change of government and the ensuing budgetary cuts, community led and voluntary sector organisations continue to play an extensive part in the life of neighbourhoods. Even while the interviews were taking place, as early as 2008, the promissory notes of ‘small [...]
Extracts – The Invisible Village
Brief Extracts from The Invisible Village
From Still Polish
Acme Meats: it’s factory making meat, hams, bacons, and inside it’s very cold and very wet. Who is working there? Pakistani, Polish, Czech, Slovakian, Russian, Lithuanian, Latvian, Estonian: there is no English. Big percent of workers are people from Eastern Europe. English younger people, [...]
Warehouse Extract
Introduction to Warehouse by Ian Daley and two sample stories – ‘Dustbin Man’ by Alan Green and ‘Survival Instinct’ by Jono Bell
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Extract – The Train of Ice and Fire
Ramón Chao’s Prologue for The Train of Ice and Fire.
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