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Best Books of 2012

20 Thursday Dec 2012

Posted by marina72 in Art and Photography, Books, Fiction, Marilyn Monroe, Non-Fiction, Witchcraft

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A Year in Books, Adam Braver, Christine Middleton, Dark Places, Elif Shafak, Ferragamo, Gil Adamson, Gillian Flynn, Honour, Kate Grenville, Lancashire Witches, Livi Michael, Malkin Child, Marilyn Monroe, Marilyn Monroe: Private And Undisclosed, Michelle Morgan, Misfit, Pendle Witches, Sarah Thornhill, Sofka Zinovieff, Stefania Ricci, The House on Paradise Street, The Outlander, The Witch & Her Soul

My ten favourite reads of 2012, including new fiction; books commemorating the 50th anniversary of Marilyn Monroe’s death, and the 400th anniversary of the Pendle witch trials; and some previously published books that I’ve just caught up with.

I had never read Kate Grenville’s work before, but Sarah Thornhill (and its predecessor, The Secret River) really evokes the stark beauty of the outback, contrasted with the tumult of the early settlers.  Continue reading →

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 →

1612 Underture

27 Thursday Sep 2012

Posted by marina72 in Film, History, Music, Witchcraft

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1612 Underture, Adrian Flanagan, Dean Honer, Eccentronic Research Council, Kluncklick, Lancashire Witches, Lucy Hope, Maxine Peake, Pendle Witches, Sheffield

The Eccentronic Research Council (ERC) is a collective founded by Sheffield musicians Adrian Flanagan and Dean Honer.

1612 Underture, their new concept album, also features the Bolton-born actress Maxine Peake. Continue reading →

Sabbat

11 Wednesday Jul 2012

Posted by marina72 in History, Theatre, Witchcraft

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Lancashire Witches, Orange Tree Theatre, Pendle Witches, Richard Shannon, Sabbat

Sabbat is a play by Richard Shannon, based on the trials of the Pendle Witches. It was first staged at the Dukes Theatre, Lancaster, in 2009, and has been revived for a nationwide tour, marking the 400th anniversary of the infamous witch-hunt. Continue reading →

The Pendle Witch Child

19 Friday Aug 2011

Posted by marina72 in History, Television, Witchcraft

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Child Witnesses, Documentaries, Early Modern History, Jennet Device, Lancashire Witches, Pendle Witches, Phoebe Boswell, Simon Armitage, The Pendle Witch Child, Witchcraft

Simon Armitage – one of Britain’s leading poets – was born in West Yorkshire. Like many local children, he would have been raised on stories of the Pendle Witches in nearby Lancashire.

A grimly intoxicating blend of history, crime and folklore is richly evoked in Armitage’s new BBC Four documentary, The Pendle Witch Child. Next year marks the fourth centenary of the notorious 1612 trial, the largest of its kind in England at the time. Continue reading →

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