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Matt Beaumont – The Interview

An astronaut enjoyed my first book so much that he took my picture to space. This does sound pretty incredible and I wouldn’t believe it myself if I didn’t have some evidence. I’ve got a photograph of Piers Sellers (the spaceman) holding a photocopied jacket shot of me against the window of a space shuttle. You can see Planet Earth through the glass, 115 miles below.

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Firestation Bookswap Jan 2010 pt1

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Steve Feasey – The Interview

I have such a strange memory of my childhood and teenage years – I seem to have simply blocked out great chunks of it. I do remember feeling terribly inadequate during my teenage years. Everyone else seemed to know what they wanted out of life, and which direction they were going to go. I just felt…adrift. I was at my happiest when I had my head stuck in a book. Looking back on it now, that may not have been a bad thing.

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100 People of Windsor – one year on

Derek Reay is a photographer living and working in Windsor, Berkshire, he photographed 100 people in Windsor for a book titled – not surprisingly –  ’100 People in Windsor’. One year later, The Firestation Arts Centre and Windsor Festival jointly sponsored a project to reunite as many of the original 100 people together for an [...]

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Helen Rappaport – The Interview

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Toska. It’s the Russian word for longing – a particular kind of longing, of nostalgia for home and country and one’s own. It’s what all Russian exiles suffered from.

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It’s Not What You Say, Joanna Neary

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Joanna seems to shine brightest when she is performing dance routines using literal translations of songs

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Hot Gear And Bear Woman

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the downside to this incessant delivery, of course, is the difficulty of getting your breath back having laughed solidly for an hour

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