Carmel ThomasonMusic in Mind is Manchester Camerata’s pioneering music therapy project for people with dementia. Carmel Thomason talks to musician, Naomi Atherton to find out how the programme has adapted online during the pandemic, providing emergency...
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Following a sell-out debut tour in 2019, Britain’s Got Talent winner, Lee Ridley – aka Lost Voice Guy – has a brand new show for 2021, Cerebral LOL-sy. He talks to Carmel Thomason about life during Covid and looking forward to...
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Lorraine Worsley-CarterLorraine Worsley-Carter meets Sarah Emmott, Creative Director of Salford-based arts organisation, Art With Heart, to find out about the company’s new podcast, BOX TICKERS, a response to the 10th anniversary of the Equality Act 2010. Why is now a...
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I never expected that we would buy a second home abroad and I never expected to write a book about it, but that is the joy of life’s journey. As one of my friends commented: “You have now exorcised the agony and the ecstasy of being a part-time...
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Hazel RoyDirector, Hazel Roy has worked with Thailand’s Moradokmai Theatre Community for over a decade. Much has changed over that time and, as her recent visit shows, the Community never fails to surprise, creating an irresistible draw that has her...
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Martin ThomassonSometime in the mid-1970s I, and about 90% of a fair-sized crowd, got to our feet to applaud and then cheer, not a football match or a ‘live’ show, but a film. What’s more, this wasn’t Hollywood or a West End premiere. This was a matinee at the...
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For every small child, the world is like a pile of jigsaw pieces without a picture showing you how the finished job is meant to look. Worse, than that, whenever you think you’re starting to fit a bit of it together, make sense of it, some adult...
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Event organiser Liz Taylor, aka the Millionaire Party Planner, has been a leader in luxury party planning for more than 35 years. She talks to Quays Life about delving into her little black book of celebrity clients to launch a brand a new podcast...
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A friend of mine once ruined his parents’ Christmas morning by throwing a blue strop because the tricycle they’d saved for months to buy him didn’t have the boot that he’d so clearly explained to them was essential. The boot was the bit where he was...
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The second time I was stopped in the street for questioning by the police, was not an ordeal. It was a bright spring morning. I was walking away from Bolton town centre, on my way to teach a class at the Chadwick campus of Bolton Institute of Higher...
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