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An electrifying performance from Clare Shaw at the launch of Some Girls’ Mothers at Chesterfield Library, World Book Day 2009. The pregnancy test is an extract from Clare’s story ‘Mother’. (7:00)
The first event of the Some Girls’ Mothers literary tour at Little Sutton Library, Ellesmere Port on
18 October 2008. Features Suzanne Batty, Anne Caldwell, Char March and River Wolton. (3:16)
Short video profiling Herta Müller’s award for the Nobel Prize in Literature in the run up to the presentation. (4:47)
Adrian Wilson and his band Strangeways performing ‘Wasting Time’ on ‘Get it Together’ with Roy North in 1978. (5:30)
Watch Barack Obama deliver his Nobel Peace Prize Lecture during the Nobel Peace Prize Award Ceremony at the Oslo City Hall in Norway, 10 December 2009. (37:03)
Mark Gwynne Jones’ city rattles to the undertones of a diesel engine and sings like ‘a sparrow of fog and fumes and the time when he was cock of the world. Yes the city is a drunk. Harbouring hurt.’
Performed as encore at the Kings Arms in Salford.
Mark Gwynne Jones’ film-poem. Noah lives at the top of a block of flats and wakes one morning to find the town flooded. (5:02)
Mark Gwynne Jones performs ‘Plasticman’ and bemuses shoppers down at the local superstore. (2:39)
Ian Clayton’s son Edward is a budding pianist. Here he is having fun during practice, knocking out some Miles Davis and Scott Joplin. (3:55)
Mike Sheridan speaks to Eric Cantona and Paul Laverty about Looking for Eric (5:51)