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Win tickets ‘Into The Future’

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In just a couple of weeks 2012 will be imminent…so to make sure you celebrate in style, our friends at the Firestation are offering Beat readers the chance to win two pairs of tickets to their New Years Eve extravaganza! With 4 rooms of interactive future visions, hybrid entertainment and migrating sounds, this promises to be an amazing New Years Eve party!

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Late Night Gimp Fight – The Review

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 “Gimps?” “Yes. They’re called Late Night Gimp Fight. Hhmmm. Not sure if that’s my kind of thing.” And so the conversation went, as I read the first few lines of a publicity poster. A masked gimp holding a baby urges me to read more about these supposed gimps, before making a decision as to whether [...]

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Review of the Windsor Fringe Kenneth Branagh Award For New Drama Writing 2011

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  Some of us may already have enough drama in our lives while some thrive on it. I’ll take the latter approach especially after my debut attendance to the annual Windsor Fringe Drama Awards. Now in its eighth year, the concept is to give aspiring writers the chance to see their work brought to life [...]

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The Book Swap Interview – Jonathan Pinnock

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I love the fact that you can play with stuff without feeling you’re committed to a long-term relationship. So you can try out new things, like writing a piece in the second person, or the future tense or whatever.

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The Book Swap Interview – John Harding

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I’ve always talked to myself inside my head and it came as a surprise a few years ago when I discovered that some other people didn’t. I have my own private language and catchphrases, and I assumed everyone did.

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Heraldry as Art… in The Park

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If art has often been an expression of the personal power of a monarch, it can also be felt, personally, as powerful to all people. So, even art which was created in undemocratic times can be fundamentally democratic, having a universal appeal.

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Lucy Driscoll – Present

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Present – A picture article by Lucy Driscoll.

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A Most Cool Author – An Interview With R.J. Ellory

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Ellory admits to probably not reading enough in recent years – but we’ll forgive him – a four-hundred page novel every twelve months not to mention the book tours, work in local libraries, replying religiously to e-mails from fans (and aspiring writers…!), some charity work and of course a family – does exonerate him.

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The Book Swap Interview – Isabel Losada

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There are always a lot of good and excellent things to consider – art, music, literature, people who are inspiring. Lots to celebrate. And I think often of a man I miss. But I’m not mentioning him. Obviously.

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The Book Swap Interview – Jonathan Lee

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It’s coming to something when quitting, an impulse that’s usually considered destructive, gets wheeled out as a man’s greatest achievement but leaving behind my safe, nicely paid job that I’d trained to do for years was difficult. I’m someone who likes an element of routine, of safety and familiarity, and backing myself to write a novel – when in truth I had no good reason to believe I could write a publishable one – required a leap of faith.

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