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THE DEPTFORD DIARIES
09 May 11 - BBC NEWS have just interviewed a man camping outside Westminster Abbey in preparation for the royal wedding...
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CONTROVERSEY: THE OPERA CONTROVERSEY: THE OPERA
09 May 11 - ALEIleister Crowley said: ‘Do What Thou Wilt Shall Be The Whole Of The Law’ and when I met writer-composer-musician-comic Richard Thomas it often felt like this was his raison d'être, having seemingly courted controversy as a career choice...


A FIGHT TO THE TOP A FIGHT TO THE TOP
18 Apr 11 - Most will know Neil Jackson as Harry Spargo, the driver in the last batch of Upstairs Downstairs programmes. Younger viewers will recognise him as Sasha Belov, the coach in E4’s 'Make It or Break It', that is showing now...

THE DEPTFORD DIARIES
18 Apr 11 - Budget basics..


THE DEPTFORD DIARIES
09 Mar 11 - By Al Green..

DEDICATION BEYOND DUTY DEDICATION BEYOND DUTY
09 Mar 11 - Awards Season, so everyone should now be fed up with seeing Colin Firth collecting shiny things for stuttering well..


ON THE MARK ON THE MARK
07 Feb 11 - YeAh, so Southwark has produced some big stars in recent history but where are they now? Living in LA or, even worse, north London. But behind all those big names are the local people who have continually done great work in the community without moving away and trying to put their Southwark postcode days behind them, writes Michael Holland......

DEPTFORD DIARIES
07 Feb 11 - If you leave aside for a moment the pomp and pageantry of the Olympics, the ridiculous opening ceremony with its hour long tedious spectacle of unimaginatively choreographed dance routines, the representative countries marching their flag around the stadium half of whom nobody has ever heard of and the Olympic torch which..


FIRE IN HER HEART FIRE IN HER HEART
06 Jan 11 - AFTER A fire took out most of All Saints Church in 2000, local artist Ilinca Cantacuzino wrote to ask if she could document the planned restoration through art..

DEPTFORD DIARIES
06 Jan 11 - WATCHING THE news last Thursday it would have been very easy to come to the conclusion that anyone protesting the student fees was a drug taking middle class vandal or the son of an overrated boring ‘70s rock group (or both) hell bent on mindless destruction...


DEPTFORD DIARIES
07 Dec 10 - WATCHING THE media coverage of the royal wedding over the last few days you’d be forgiven for thinking that the whole country has gone completely mad. ..

I WENT TO MY OWN FUNERAL... I WENT TO MY OWN FUNERAL...
17 Nov 10 - ‘I HAD the chance of being at my own funeral and it was brilliant.’ When you meet a man who tells you that; whose life story would merit a book, a film, a graphic novel, another book and a musical to top it off, it is difficult to know where to start..


DEPTFORD DIAIRIES
08 Oct 10 - I CAN think of better ways to spend a Tuesday afternoon than to have my doctor slip on a pair of marigolds and root around in my anal cavity. ..

DEPTFORD DIARIES
09 Jun 10 - I'VE ONLY got three friends. I really don't think you need more than that. I have other friends of course but they're not really 'friend' friends. ..
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THE NEWS FROM NUNHEAD THE NEWS FROM NUNHEAD
09 Jun 10 - Just as Quentin Crisp found his spiritual home in New York, so a New Yorker found his spiritual home in Nunhead...

THE DEPTFORD DIARIES
19 May 10 - 'IT'S REALLY nothing to worry about,' says the doctor reassuringly. ..


GRUMP COMES UP TRUMPS
19 May 10 - WHAT GETS your goat? London transport? Noisy neighbours? British weather? writes Emma Ailes.....

DEPFORD DIARIES
14 Apr 10 - By Al Green..


WILL YOU BE MY VALENTINE? WILL YOU BE MY VALENTINE?
14 Apr 10 - Shirley Valentine, the Bafta-nominated comedy by much-loved dramatist Willy Russell, hasn't been seen on the London stage since the eighties, but this season a revival at The Chocolate Factory on Southwark Street sees comedian and actress Meera Syal resurrecting the role, writes Emma Ailes.....

BIG ART FROM THE BIG MAN BIG ART FROM THE BIG MAN
09 Mar 10 - WE CONSTANTLY hear of the huge regeneration project that will supposedly rejuvenate the Elephant & Castle area, but along with those plans come the troubles connected to the billions needed to make it happen. ..