Actor and writer John Bartlett whisks us back in time to the eccentric, ‘wondrously wayward’ life of Hampshire publican Dick Luff. The Queens Head, in the outwardly tranquil township of Sheet, is situated at the [… read more ]
From 1974 to 1978, Gosport-based writer and planetary modeller David Angus lived in South Africa. Here he shares the letters he wrote to his mother relating his experiences of hard labour, riots and the appalling [… read more ]
Portsmouth University Visiting Lecturer and stand-up comic Matthew Alford takes a lighthearted glance at the 2019 General Election campaign, which he follows swiftly with a heavy-hearted gawp. I am the perfect person to write a [… read more ]
Writer and actor John Bartlett remembers an iconic Portsmouth pub and some shambolic yet hilarious musical goings-on within. The Sir Robert Peel was built in 1967 and demolished some forty years later. It had little [… read more ]
As part of Portsmouth University’s recent This Is The Week That Is festival, Dr Van Norris hailed filmmaker Ralph Bakshi as one of the great – yet underrated – satirists of our time. We present [… read more ]
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