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Amazing Les Misérables wows Norwich
Les Misérables, based on Victor Hugo’s magisterial novel of the same name, has been performed in London since 1985, making it the West End’s longest-running show. Indeed, this musical is…
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Cinderella Wows The Crowd With Spectacular Dancing & Plenty Of Laughs
The tale of Cinderella is well known: a pretty but put-upon girl lives in the shadow of her two bullying ugly sisters but, eventually, meets her prince. This production at…
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Lord Owen @ UEA Literary Festival: Trump, Bush, Blair and Hubris Syndrome
Lord Owen is best known for his time as a frontline politician, when he was foreign secretary and a co-founder of the Social Democratic Party. But before politics, David Owen…
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Steve Jones @ the UEA Literary Festival
The geneticist Professor Steve Jones began his recent talk held as part of the University of East Anglia’s Autumn Literary Festival 2019 by describing himself as “a serial plagiarist”. He…
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Rip it Up The 70s Showcases The Decade With Energy and Style
What are the 70s remembered for? Well, flares and disco music are two of the obvious things, but Rip it Up The 70s demonstrated how diverse the musical output –…
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Norwich Gets Busted
Back in the early 2000s, Busted were topping the UK charts with a brand of punk pop that appealed to a mostly young audience. So, more than 15 years on…
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Caister Castle Classic Car Collection Review
The vintage mystique of a Rolls-Royce Phantom, the elegance of a Jaguar E-Type and the boxy utilitarianism of a Ford Fiesta – the car collection at Caister Castle is as…
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Enjoyable Gorse Walk at Dunwich Heath and Beach
One of the best presents I’ve had over recent years has been a membership to the National Trust. It’s enabled us to go to some of the regular places we…
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Did Thriller Thrill?
It is now almost a decade since Michael Jackson’s death and while his personal legacy will always be an ambiguous one, as a performer he remains without peer. A musical…
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Let’s Rock! Norwich
Let’s Rock Norwich has become something of an institution, and with Earlham Park packed for this year’s show, there is no sign that the mammoth annual event’s popularity is fading.…
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Tracey Thorn at the UEA Literary Festival
Tracey Thorn is best known as one half of the pop duo Everything But the Girl – their biggest hit was the haunting Missing – and she continues to write…
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Max Porter @ UEA Literature Festival
For some booksellers, their daily immersion in the literary world helps them in their own efforts at writing. Max Porter, however, found the opposite, saying that it generated an anxiety…
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