Author Archives: Marco Graziosi

So this is what Gorey sounds like

Posted on October 31, 2003 by Marco Graziosi

Tiger Lillies, with the Kronos Quartet, bring the artist’s macabre mirth to the stage in a brilliant show. Continue reading →

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Telling tales is a treat for all children of all ages

Posted on October 19, 2003 by Marco Graziosi

Telling tales is a treat for all children of all ages… Rick Huddle steps up to recite Edward Lear’s rhyming story ‘The Dong With a Luminous Nose.’ The words belong to Lear but the telling is all Huddle, a mix … Continue reading →

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Rose-Red City Carved From the Rock

Posted on October 17, 2003 by Marco Graziosi

Rose-Red City Carved From the Rock In 1812 a Swiss-born, Cambridge-educated linguist named Johann Ludwig Burckhardt passed through the city en route from Syria to Egypt. He spent an uneasy three days there, unwelcomed as an outsider by the inhabitants, … Continue reading →

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Spike's sad sharp edge

Posted on October 17, 2003 by Marco Graziosi

Spike’s sad sharp edgeThose who grew up on The Goon Show will see him as later generations saw Monty Python – as the one who made sense by failing to do so, the great anarch who gave form to a … Continue reading →

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The Limerick Challenge

Posted on October 17, 2003 by Marco Graziosi

The Limerick Challenge To mark National Poetry Day, you are formally invited to join the Magazine’s Limerick Challenge.BBC NEWS | UK | Magazine | 9 October 2003

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Nailing Spike

Posted on October 17, 2003 by Marco Graziosi

Nailing Spike [Milligan] The combination of Spike, Peter Sellers, Harry Secombe and Michael Bentine, with help from deep-dish subversives emerging from their cocoons in the BBC, created an explosion of verbal anarchy that nevertheless flowed from a tradition, combining music … Continue reading →

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Celebrity voices on charity CD

Posted on October 17, 2003 by Marco Graziosi

Celebrity voices on charity CD Les Barker, 59, who lives in Bwlchgwyn near Wrexham, has released a poetry CD entitled Guide Cats for the Blind, to raise funds for the British Computer Association of the Blind. His style is in … Continue reading →

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Anyone for Tennyson?

Posted on October 17, 2003 by Marco Graziosi

Anyone for Tennyson? The Queen’s residence at Osbourne helped make the Isle of Wight fashionable among the cream of Victorian society: Charles Darwin, William Makepeace Thackeray, C. F. Watts and Julia Margaret Cameron, among others, all moved to Freshwater.Of these, … Continue reading →

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Hamiltons sell up

Posted on October 17, 2003 by Marco Graziosi

Hamiltons sell up Not much about Lear, but I’m trying to resume updating this blog after a long period and anything will do.ic Liverpool | 8 September 2003

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Sentimental journey

Posted on August 25, 2003 by Marco Graziosi

Exhibition: Natural Wonders: Visions of Home and Abroad Continue reading →

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