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The Curse of Pendle

28 Wednesday Nov 2012

Posted by marina72 in History, Radio, Witchcraft

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Aquilon, BBC, Carol Ann Duffy, Diane Purkiss, Documentary, Jeanette Winterson, Lancashire Witches, Pendle Witches, Radio 4, Robert Poole, The Curse of Pendle

Installation on Pendle Hill: photo by Brett Dixon/BBC, 2012.

The Curse of Pendle is a 30-minute documentary, broadcast by BBC Radio 4 on November 23rd, commemorating the 400th anniversary of the Lancashire Witch Trials. It is presented by the novelist Jeanette Winterson, who grew up in Accrington, within view of Pendle Hill.

‘We all knew the stories of Chattox and Demdike – names you’d never forget,’ Winterson recalls. ‘Were they witches? Did they still haunt the hill? It scared us kids to death.’ Continue reading →

Shelagh Delaney 1939-2011

22 Tuesday Nov 2011

Posted by marina72 in Books, Fiction, Theatre

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A Taste of Honey, Dance With a Stranger, For Books' Sake, Jeanette Winterson, Joan Littlewood, Kenneth Tynan, Morrissey, Salford, Shelagh Delaney, Theatre Royal Stratford East

My tribute to Shelagh Delaney, ‘the first working-class woman playwright’, who died recently, is published today at For Books’ Sake

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