Welcome and a happy new year to one and all. In this holiday edition we kick off with a review of Martin Battye’s ‘Small Paintings,’ the Beer Mat Series, PrimeYarc, Market Gates, Great Yarmouth.Then there’s Paul Levy who introduces Tiny ...

Welcome to the first Collective PodcastThe Art Depot NR3, Norwichfeaturing ‘the sound of art’This is a pilot for a monthly podcast to be broadcast on the first day of each month at midday. Running time of this episode is ju...

A search for a riotous exhibition or its spirit took me to Gustave Courbet in the 19th Century and a little publicised show of kinetic art in Amsterdam in 1961.

This first of seven talks on the arts looks at the rise and demise of Community Arts,

Half scripted, half improvised, the poet faces interrogation at the local cop shop. Was his poem in Pix 6 stolen and did anyone read Pix 6? Are all the poet's poems stolen anyway? And if he has stolen them, did he not then murder them? This is ...

The picture restorer’s invoiceUnder honeysuckle sprays, a cinder path runs up to the barn and around its brick footingsto a thick archway of clipped privet, through which lies the picture res...

Stable Press, Haverhill Poetry Group, Ipswich Poetry Workshop and the Jubilee... with a poem, The Corn Dolly dole queue blues,' to round it off.

From skimming the pit in the meat factory to riding the Lansing Bagnall across the factory floor, while trying to hang on to a dream.

Back from Liverpool I returned to education, briefly, but was I born to tip my cap or was I a fire raiser after all?

Called back to Liverpool from Clare, Suffolk, to help make a film. Here too is 'Something in the Air,' the Woodside Ferry and the reality of poverty in the city.

The Haverhill Echo was an independent newspaper in Suffolk. Now long gone, I look back at my highs and lows working as a trainee reporter there in 1972

Here is part one of my autobiography (1967-1971). This autobiography will cover my enthusiasms  in drama, art and poetry over the years. In part one, an English teacher saves me via a play,  a drama course makes me and a spell in Live...

A diary exploring playwriting. In this edition: theatre courses, psychology in plays, 1968, Silent Witness and remembering Max Wall.

A fortnightly diary on playwriting and culture. First episode: Line of Duty, the existential threat and writing an audio play. Coming up: my journey in staging a play.

An appreciation of poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti, who died this week. Through him, I discovered poetry and a lot more besides.Note: apologies for pronouncing the poet Rimbaud as Rambo - but hey, Rambo The Poet is quite cool...

Raised in Clare, West Suffolk, here are some characters from my childhood and other encounters as  I attempted to leave the village, mostly using my thumb.

I grew up near Poslingford Corner, Clare, Suffolk, close to A.L. Morton,  communist historian and author of 'The People's History of England.' Here is a recollection from the time I was six, 1959.

An encounter with a dinosaur and all the world in a sharpened pencil: an exploration of why I like to write "through objects."

These four poems were written in the late 1970s/early 1980s and are variously about the "other side" of countryside. Includes Stubble Fires which became part of the narration for my BBC Radio 4 play 'Overspill,' 1993.I 've purposefully ...

I began writing poetry at fourteen (1967) and here are five short, early love poems.

This Christmas. Phil of NR3 is listening to BBC Radio 4, counting out his money to see if he can afford jam from the corner shop. He puts on his mask but will he make it out of the door?

From conspiracy theories and sabbaticals to the seat of government itself; from lockdowns and hardships to Boris's imaginary friends, here is a look back at the year, to look forward to the next.

Two monologues from a group of interlocking monologues. Though there are four characters, it can be played by two actors.

I have written plays since 1980. Despite some success in the 1990s, work cut me off from my life-long interest after the crash of 2008. Whether my new plays find success or not, I love the process of writing for performance. Here is both my jou...