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January 2025

Theatre Review: 'Macbeth' with David Tennant and Cush Jumbo
Filmed live at the Donmar Warehouse in London, Shakespeare's 'Scottish play' will be in select cinemas starting February 5
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Amy McGrath
Book Review: 'Pretend We're Dead – The Rise, Fall, and Resurrection of Women in Rock in the '90s'
From the founder of the Women of Rock Oral History Project, an exploration of women in the '90s rock scene, featuring original interviews
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Amy McGrath
Film Review: 'Midas Man'
Meet Brian Epstein, a man who lived a thousand lives within just a few years—a visionary who reshaped music history.
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Amy McGrath
Film Review: 'The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain' (1995)
How has this Hugh Grant-starring film about a Welsh village and its resourceful residents held up on its 30th anniversary?
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Amy McGrath
4
Music: 'The Hamburg Repertoire'
From smoky ballads to red hot ravers, The Beatles played them all — and more — inspired by artists from Dinah Washington to Chet Atkins
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Amy McGrath
3
The 'Alternating Currents' Legacy Interview: Don Henley
In 1992, An Eagle Takes Time To Save Walden Woods
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Amy McGrath
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December 2024

Film Review: 'Pouring Water on Troubled Oil'
A documentary film by Nariman Massoumi on Welsh poet Dylan Thomas' journey through Iran in 1951
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Amy McGrath
5
Book Review – 'Washita Love Child: The Rise of Indigenous Rock Star Jesse Ed Davis'
"Jesse Ed Davis is resurrected in story" — Joy Harjo
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Amy McGrath
3
All Together Now
Setting up the next 'cartref tudalen' for Write Hear: Pop Culture & The Beatles
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Amy McGrath
2
The 'Alternating Currents' Legacy Interview: Bobby LaRoche of The Sighs
From 1992: A Northampton seed grows into pure pop... with a 2024 holiday bonus at the end
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Amy McGrath
Book Review: 'Live From the Underground – A History of College Radio'
A long time ago, in a broadcast booth far, far away, a great revolution took place
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Amy McGrath
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