I tracked down Toby (a riotous East End paper named after Punch’s dog that got the authorities’ rag and landed its editor in prison)…a paper slated as ‘a disreputable and pestilential print’ and ‘a scandal to the country’ by the judge who would later try Oscar Wilde. Discover the extraordinary married couple behind the publication… Continue reading Mr Punch’s dog
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In the news…
In the past I’ve dabbled in journalism and I recently took up the gauntlet again for the Bylines network. Here’s a piece on the folk duo Megson’s latest project ‘the Herald’ and something on the Greenbelt Festival as it turns fifty.
Putting words into people’s mouths
How far is it possible to throw your voice? Catch Aiden Baker’s interview with me for East-Anglia Bylines about how unsettled a small settlement can be, patterns, borders and my attempts at ventriloquism across the centuries. Lots of things are going on under the surface….