Making 'Henry V - Lion of England'. Waterside Theatre, Stratford upon Avon.

The making of the Edinburgh Fringe hit, Henry V - Lion of England. This short film was made to be played on the big screen at the World of Shakespeare, now the R.S.C. Clore Learning Centre.

Features creator, writer and director Nick Hennegan, the late Ray Rosenberg and composer Robb Williams. Film made by Andy Bloom and edited at CBC productions, Birmingham. 

The Irish Film Festival, London

Nick Hennegan talks to festival director Gerry Maguire about some of the highlights of this years festival and the Irish in London. (Apologies for the echo in parts of the recording!)

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Caroline Flack and Internet Kindness Day

Caroline Flack and Internet Kindness Day

Tues 9th November is Internet Kindness Day, commemorating what would have been the birthday of TV presenter Caroline Flack. Nick Hennegan talks to author Lucy Beresford about how we can all be nicer to each other and mark the day.

 

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Chiswick Book Festival - Part Two

Nick Hennegan meets more local writers at the Chiswick Book Festival in West London.

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I Bought A Vampire Motorcycle - Birmingham Premiere

Bostin'! Just been sent this link. Brilliant to see. I was in it! (although most of me ended up on the cutting room floor, loves!)

ShowBizz Lockdown Books!

The lockdown had a devastating effect on theatre. This week, Nick Hennegan talks to two theatre workers at the Chiswick Book Festival, John Griffiths and Nick Bromley who, devastated by the lockdown, were motivated to write and publish books - proving there’s no business like show-business!

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What future for the Edinburgh Fringe?

The Edinburgh Festival Fringe returned in 2021, but much smaller after the ravages of Covid. What do the participants think about this year? What about the future? Nick Hennegan talks to actor Tim Marriott, New York stand-up Jack Dennis, Assembly PR Hannah Bradley Croall and Assembly Marketer, Daniel Saunders in the Assembly Festival Gardens, for Resonance FM and Bohemian Britain.com --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/bohemianbritain/message

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Chiswick Book Festival - Part One

The opening of the Chiswick Book Festival local Author's party at the George 4th in Chiswick. Nick Hennegan is featured on the Writers Trail, so took his trusty mic! The opening is by Torin Douglas, director of the book festival. Hear and see more at BohemianBritain.com 

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Goodbye Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2021. Nick’s time with you is over. Or is it..?

Nick Hennegan leaves the Edinburgh Festival Fringe with a heavy heart. But why do thousands of artists keep returning year after year?

Find out here https://bohemianbritain.com/2021/08/30/goodbye-edinburgh-festival-fringe-2021-nicks-time-with-you-is-over-or-is-it/

Image; When We Died by Alexandra Donnachie. On Fringe Player

 

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Goodbye UB40’s Brian Travers. A true Bohemian. RIP. What? The Rolling Stones drummer? AND a popular DJ?

Listen HERE to Nick get morbid down the Pub

So sad. RIP #UB40 talent and decent, lovely Brummy bloke, Brian Travers. We would occasionally meet up at the Hare and Hounds Pub in Kings Heath, Birmingham and we spoke about a musical idea a while ago. Not to be now. But Brian and the band were true to the Bohemian spirit with their record label, DEP.

Then Rolling Stones drummer, Charlie Watts. Then a DJ I used to work with at BRMB Radio in Birmingham. And since I recorded this little ramble, I heard that an actor I knew when she was 18, who went on to become a successful agent, has also passed away! All under 60! What a week!

“Though lovers be lost love shall not;

And death shall have no dominion.”

Dylan Thomas.

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Pip Utton is Francis Bacon... and Adolf Hitler... and Winston Churchill... Hennegan's EdFringe '21. Day 5..

As you'll know if you've read Nick's Edinburgh Festival blog on www.BohemianBritain.com - it took him a while, but thanks to the Pleasance Press People, Nick Hennegan finally got to see 'Bacon' with the actor - and jeweler - Pip Utton! Known for his one-man shows, Nick and Pip talk about his life, career and what he thinks about Adolf Hitler! From Nick's blog and Resonance FM show.

 

 

 

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A Writer, an Actor, a P.R. and an New York Stand-up walk into an Edinburgh Festival bar...

The Edinburgh Festival Fringe is back, but much smaller after the ravages of Covid. What do the participants think about this year? What about the future? Nick Hennegan talks to actor Tim Marriott, New York stand-up Jack Dennis, Assembly PR Hannah Bradley Croall and Assembly Marketer, Daniel Saunders in the Assembly Festival Gardens, for Resonance FM and Bohemian Britain.com 

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Tim Marriott – Shell Shock and Sherlock Holmes – Live from EdFest ’21!

LIVE FROM THE Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Nick Hennegan talks to actor Tim Marriott (TV’s Brittas Empire) about his compelling, contemporary drama, Shell Shock– written with veteran Neil Watkin; his new Sherlock Holmes flavoured premier Watson and his company, Smokescreen Productions.  As featured on www.BohemianBritain.com 

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The Edinburgh Festivals Return

Nick Hennegan talks to Nick Barley, Director of the Edinburgh International Book Festival about what we can expect in 2021 from the biggest arts festivals in the world! See the video at www.BohemianBritian.com 

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London. It’s about community, stupid! (Leave your baseball bat at home…!)

Jun 28 2021

Love of the Common People. Some of the creative team behind the Fitzrovia Arts Festival.

Full disclosure. I’m from Birmingham. And I love Britain’s Second City. But I’ve been flirting with London for nearly 40 years and I’ve been here full-time for over 15 years. When I first came to live in London – south of the river – I travelled with a baseball bat for security. Now this might sound extreme, but remember, no one from my family had ever been further from Brum than Wales for summer holidays and I was coming to LIVE in That London – where the streets are paved with crime. My mate’s Dad told me not to make eye contact with anyone. It was dangerous. The night before I left, I had a farewell party at Traceys Nightclub in Redditch. Yep, a quality venue. My younger sister and some of my friends were inconsolable. I might have been going to Australia, not 100 miles down the road. But to a working class family, London felt that huge.

It didn’t take me too long to realise that I’d no more need a baseball bat in London than I would in Kings Heath, Birmingham. I was working with (brilliant) children in care for Social Services. A colleague introduced me to a voluntary radio station in Thamesmead, south-east London and after turning up as a volunteer ready to make the tea I ended up presenting a breakfast show. I won my first ever award in Thamesmead. The Tavy Bridge Social Club’s Services to The Community Pennant! (I must find out if the club still exists!) Tavy Bridge was where much of Stanley Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange was filmed. The club members were mainly ex-dockers from the East End, and they were very welcoming to a young Brummy lad. I wasn’t really drinking either, so it wasn’t about buying rounds at the bar. They were just really nice, welcoming people from That London! 

And that was my first experience of how this Centre of Empire, this City of Progress, this Sceptred Isle, this Seat of Kings, where the Streets are paved with Gold (not crime!) was actually just as small and personal as the blessed council estate of my birth.

Recently I was at the launch of the Fitzrovia Arts Festival. (You can hear the recording I did for our podcast on this site.) And what really comes across – the essence of the people both involved in the creation and attendance of the event – was passion for their area and each other. And that’s why the art gallery owner in Fitzrovia reminded me of the corner shop owner on my Billesley council estate. Passion and love for their area and the people who live there. In spite of the huge differences between incomes and upbringings, both women would have been best friends, I think. Because they instinctively know life is about people and places, not property and profit. And so I’ve found all over London. Be it the fabulous Soho Society, the Fitzrovia Trust, Covent Garden Community Association or, of course Trust Thamesmead – from Canary Wharf to the Old Kent Road, from Ealing to Elephant and Castle, London is all about people living in communities. Even Newham, in East London, where the average resident only stays for two years, has some fantastic community groups.

So leave your baseball bat at home, young Bohemian. London, like every major world city, has its threats and dangers. But it will accept and love you, if you open yourself to it. It’s about community…

Arts Party in Fitzrovia, London!

To celebrate the return of the Fitzrovia Arts Festival, Nick Hennegan went to the opening event in Warren Mews, London, W1. There he meets (and tries to drink with!) the locals… who are writers, artists, historians, gallery owners, Soho tailors and office workers, all sharing a love for a unique and hidden part of London. And this gem of an area almost throws up the truth about… Jack the Ripper! (Sort of..!)

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Celebrating W.B Yeats in Chiswick London (Video)

This is such a great scheme... and its W.B. #Yeats!  

#crowdfunding #poetry #MaverickTheatre #BohemainBritain

Celebrating W.B. Yeats in London

An interview with broadcaster Nick Hennegan - on Resonance 104.4fm and the Maverick Theatre Company YouTube Channel and BohemianBritain.com - and poet and critic Cahal Dallat about an ambitious project to raise £135,000 to celebrate W.B Yeats and his upbringing in Bedford Park, Chiswick, West London - the first Artists suburb in the world! 

For more information see www.wbyeatsbedfordpark.com

Twitter @YeatsBedfordPk

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Hennegan's Good Writers Pub Guide - Chiswick, London

Check out some of these Pubs up the #Chiswick High Road. And a church drawn by Van Gogh! And read the reviews at wwwLondonLiteraryPubCrawl.com

Behind the Rose Playhouse - Shakespeare's first Theatre.

Nick Hennegan talks to the Rose Playhouse in London, about its fascinating history and a new series of webinars with some of their famous supporters, including Dame Janet Suzman.

www.RosePlayhouse.org.uk

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https://youtu.be/-j7UOBbs7LU

Nick Hennegan with Linda Shannon and Celia Gilbert.

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Behind the Globe Playhouse, London.

Nick Hennegan talks to the Globe Playhouse in London, about its fascinating history and a new series of webinars with some of their famous supporters, including Dame Janet Suzman.

Fun Palaces!

This week, Nick Hennegan talks to Kirsty Lothian, co-director of Fun places UK, an idea first created by Joan Littlewood, director of the Theatre Royal, Stratford East, in London.

Inside the Royal Society of Literature

Nick Hennegan finds out about the Royal Society of Literature, in London, a 200 year old organisation with a very modern outlook.

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Sherlock Holmes and Tron the movie!

Sherlock Holmes and the Tron Movies

Nick Hennegan talks to writer Bonnie Macbird about her new series of Sherlock Holmes novels and how she came to work in Hollywood and created and wrote the Tron series of films.

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Inside The Royal Society of Literature

Nick Hennegan in conversation with writer Samantha Bewick

Nick Hennegan talks to Chiswick author Samantha Bewick about her New York based murder mysteries - and why she quit a high paid job to be a full time writer! 

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The Bloomsbury Festival 2021