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The Review - FEATURES
Published: 27 September 2007
 
Bright talent from the dark side

Horror creator Robert Wynne-Simmons used schoolboy bullying and horrific nightmares to his advantage, writes Simon Wroe

NIGHTMARES were the reason Robert Wynne-Simmons began to write. > more
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Murder at the Angel
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Portrait of the poet as a thinking man - IT is a measure of Louis MacNeice that as he stood over the grave of fellow Irish poet WB Yeats, re-interrred from... > more

Sometimes, art for art’s sake is OK - SOME people will really hate it, says art collector Anita Zabludowicz. > more

The room that made a William Morris socialist - MICHAEL Foot has many heroes: Nye Bevan, William Hazlitt, HG Wells, Jonathan Swift and his father, Isaac. > more

Looking for something to sing about - IF you enjoy singing and want something rewarding to do every week, why not join a choir? > more

Little orphan lives revived - MERCY Draper, aka Foundling 2767, was born Elizabeth Chambers on October 24, 1756 in the parish of Castle Eaton, Wiltshire...>more

Yes, Prime Minister
- IT was April 1975. A snowy day. I waited in the central lobby of the House of Commons to be taken to lunch. My host was Prime Minister Harold ...>more

Peace from the ashes of destruction - IT is Monday morning in the Basque town of Gernika and the market place is bustling. Market day is the... > more

Unlocking the creative side of the artists behind bars
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IS art redemptive? Can the very act of picking up a pen or a paintbrush touch something in the soul... > more

Boy George, the prodigy who was toast of Europe
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A BUZZ is growing around composer Julian Josephs’ new jazz opera, Bridgetower. And in a matter... > more

Storey for our times
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DAVID Storey, the Booker Prize-winning novelist and playwright, who celebrates his 74th birthday next month, was in open... > more

Distant voices
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BEFORE 1920 nothing in the Chechen language was written down. All of the country’s proud heritage and its many struggles were sung... > more

The naked and the dead
- FIRST impressions always count. So when you see three giant dinosaurs towering above the classical courtyard entrance to the... > more

Take a trip to Africa – in London
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FORGET Bollywood – a celebration of all things African kicks off in London on Saturday. > more

The Tiger author who came out for a chat
- WHEN Judith Kerr was a child in Berlin in the early 1930s, she was impressed when her theatre critic father was... > more

‘Watch Big Brother to see we’re a lousy lot’
- THE BIG row over Celebrity Big Brother “took the manhole cover off the subterranean dirty currents of British racism”... > more

The fast comedian behind Young Bond - CHARLIE Higson spent formative comic time with Harry Enfield on the appropriately named Merryville Estate in Hackney. > more

Jack sets his politics to a classy jazz riff - JACK Shepherd, star of the top-rated 1990s television detective series Wycliffe, is back in north London indulging the two... > more

Why doubt matters to the relaxed Rabbi
- WHEN Lionel Blue told his mother he was going into the ministry, she burst into tears. > more

SPECIAL - BLOOMSBURY FESTIVAL
A Private Eye view of a cartoonist’s world - THE cartoonist Michael Heath was evacuated from Bloomsbury to Willow Road in Hampstead during... > more

Dream come true for Bloomsbury - THE Brunswick Centre is buzzing. Shoppers throng the array of stores that now occupy its new glass-fronted arcade. > more

Kicking off a great festival of culture - FEW areas of London conjure up the rich cultural and artistic heritage of Bloomsbury – from the museums and colleges... > more

Virginia’s paper round in the park - IT is easy to forget that Virginia Woolf, the writer seen as one of the lynchpins of the Bloomsbury set and a standard-bearer... > more

The changing face of The Brunswick Centre - THE Brunswick Centre has become an iconic example of modernist building design. > more
Picasso’s little-known animal period unveiled - PICASSO’S painting of his lover, Dora Maar and her Cat, sold at auction in New York earlier this year for a... > more

Keeping the spirit alive - TWENTY-TWO years ago, Erwin James was sentenced to life imprisonment at the Old Bailey for a crime he has never discussed. > more

Secrets of Prunella's lunchtime monologues - IT is hard to think of Prunella Scales without conjuring up images of Basil’s shrewish wife Sybil in the classic... > more
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