Stage Ghosts and Haunted Theatres!

Nick Hennegan talks to theatre worker and writer Nick Bromley about his life, books, work... and Theatre Ghosts!  Nick has been a West End Company Manager since 1971, with shows such as The Sound of Music, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and Love Never Dies to his name.

He is the sixteenth Master of the Drury Lane Theatrical Fund, founded by David Garrick in 1766, and a member of both the Ghost Club and the Society for Psychical Research.

 

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Soundscape of Love

This week, Nick Hennegan creates a musical and spoken word soundscape around the theme of love! 

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Well-known writers featured on the London Literary Pub Crawl.

London has been home to some of the most revered writers in history. Here are five of the most famous writers who have lived and worked in the city:

1. 1. Charles Dickens: The renowned English author was born in Portsmouth, but moved to London in his early twenties and wrote most of his beloved classics, such as Great Expectations, Oliver Twist and A Christmas Carol, while living in the city.
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3. 2. George Orwell: The author of Animal Farm and 1984 spent much of his life in London and his novels were often influenced by his life in the city. I've been to the real Pub on which he based his Proles Pub in 1984!
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5. 3. Virginia Woolf: The modernist writer and founder of the Bloomsbury Group is perhaps best known for her novel Mrs Dalloway. Woolf moved to the city in 1904 and wrote many of her works while living in London.
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7. 4. J.K. Rowling: The author of the beloved Harry Potter books lived in London while writing the first four novels in the series.
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9. 5. William Shakespeare: The Bard is perhaps the most famous of all London writers. He lived here for much of his life and wrote his most famous works, such as Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet and Hamlet while in London.
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Find out more at www.LondonLiteraryPubCrawl.com

Dickens, Calvino and Hugo!

Nick Hennegan celebrates the birthdays of Charles Dickens and Victor Hugo and a new English translation of Italo Calvino.

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WB Yeats In Dublin and London

Celebrating a new, free, interactive app celebrating the life of Yeats in Chiswick, Nick Hennegan found an old recording discussing the poet, live in Dublin.

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W.B Yeats and Artists in Bedford Park, London W4.

Nick Hennegan talks to Irish Poet Cahal Dallat on Literary London on Resonance 104.4fm and BohemianBritain.com about a new, interactive trail following the life and works of London Irish Poet WB Yeats around his boyhood home in Bedford Park, Chiswick, London. They also chat about inspiration and other famous Irish and London artists.

For details of the project, see www.wbyeatsbedfordpark.com

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Bohemian look-back at 2022

A gentle look back of some of the Bohemian highlights of 2022 with Nick Hennegan on Resonance 104.4fm's 'Literary London' It includes an interview with Andy Slaughter, M.P. for Hammersmith in London, on the occasion of a new artwork celebrating WB Yeats; music from the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Prejudice And Pride and Winston and David.... news of Jim Cartwright's TWO, and how you can put it on at your local bar, pub or community centre... and will Nick return to acting for the first time in 30 years?

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