The weekly arts magazine
Have You Seen Manchester?
A new kind of cabaret opened at Manchester's University Theatre last Wednesday. It is devised by David Wright and based on hours of recordings of Mancunians plus the music, gags, and improvisations that characterise the Northern clubs.
Release shows scenes from the show against the background of the city that inspired it.
A Book for Christmas
Three authors of newly published books for children talk about what drew them away from writing fiction for adults to fantasies for children.
Nell Dunn, Roald Dahl, Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy
in the chair, Ronald Eyre
Juke Baroque Jury
A new gallery at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London offers a colourful display of old musical instruments and a juke box of recordings from the collection. An attractive entertainment - but why, say some, may you not play the instruments?
(Colour)