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Poetry Review Spring 2013 – Oxley & Davidson

Poetry Review Spring 2013 – Oxley & Davidson

Thomas Ovans browses a handsome poetic and photographic collaboration by William Oxley and Barry Davidson

The Secret Listeners: Phase Two Press Release

The Secret Listeners: Phase Two Press Release

The Secret Listeners is a Pascal Theatre Company, year long project, funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund.  It is based on the transcripts of German and Austrian Jewish refugees who worked as secret listeners for the British Government during World War Two.

Picking through the bits

Picking through the bits

Thomas Ovans uses the internet to solve mysteries round an air crash fifty years ago   … and also uncovers some more recent concerns

Book review – Lost Empire

Book review – Lost Empire

    Thomas Ovans reviews Empire of the Clouds by James Hamilton-Paterson

Burlesque v. Geisha by Natalia Read

Burlesque v. Geisha by Natalia Read

Archives 2009 Burlesque v. Geisha or  democratising the erotic by Natalia Read

Museums: Hadrian  /  Babylon Duncan Prowse reviews new exhibitions at the British Museum, London, 2008 – 2009

Museums: Hadrian / Babylon Duncan Prowse reviews new exhibitions at the British Museum, London, 2008 – 2009

Archive 2008 Museums Hadrian  /  Babylon Duncan Prowse reviews new exhibitions at the British Museum, London, 2008 – 2009   What is the connection between the Tower of Babel, Bob Marley, Thomas Hobbes, Blake, Psalm 137, commercial contract law, the 60 minute hour, the 360 degree circle and the American invasion of Iraq? Answer: Babylon.