Refugee Boy Special Edition Poster
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This is a special edition poster for my stage adaptation of Benjamin Zephaniah's hit novel Refugee Boy at West Yorkshire Playhouse. Please share and click on poster.
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Trying to blend in at Paddington Station: 8am 26th Feb
All Day in Hospital
Left Paddington Station for Bristol at 8am this morning - up at 6am. Said hello to Giles Brandreth in the Taxi rank on his way to see Tom Morris at The Bristol Old Vic. I'm working with Morag Myerscough Read more [...]
Abuse in Oaklands Childrens Home or Wood End Assessment Centre?
I received a message that began “I’m shaking as I type all this as I haven't ever discussed with anyone else before.” He wrote his phone number and I called. Immediately. “Do you remember Mr Read more [...]
Letterbox Live at Southbank Centre.
Today I introduced children's authors onto stage at Southbankcentre's Imagine Festival for Letterbox Live . Letterbox Live celebrates The Letterbox Club for which I am patron. Letterbox Club gets books Read more [...]
Reading For Care Leavers at Arvon
I’m at Arvon in the wilds of Devon deep in the South West of England. It’s still dark but a slight blue is seeping through. I can hear a rasping partridge outside and a clutter of wings . The Read more [...]
Lolliop and Laddu on my flight home
So I am on the plane returning to england from Pakistan. I'm sat next to a charming woman and we get along like a house on fire. Turns out she runs Lollip and laddu who provide videography and photography Read more [...]
“Karachi City is on High Alert”
Eighty-four people were killed and two hundred wounded in a suicide bomb last night in Quetta. This morning the hotel is sombre; the breakfast lounge is quiet and guards with double barrel shotguns Read more [...]
Final Reading at Karachi Literature Festival
It’s my final reading at The Karachi Literature Festival in The Sunflower Room again. This one was for young people but the audience was wonderfully mixed. A good literature festival curates new Read more [...]
The British Deputy High Commission: Karachi
Tonight I attended a garden party at The British Deputy British High Commissioners place. And very snazzy it is too. The people in the picture are fashion designers but the woman to my left. She Read more [...]