Blogs in February 2020

Funny Girl 21st February 2020

Barbara Parker is Miss Blackpool of 1964, but she doesn’t want to be a beauty queen. She only wants to make people laugh. So she leaves her hometown behind, takes herself off to London, and lands a life-changing audition...

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Slam 21st February 2020

‘There was this time when everything seemed to have come together. And so obviously it was time to go and screw it all up.’ Sam is sixteen and a skater. Just so there are no terrible misunderstandings: skating =...

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A Long Way Down 21st February 2020

‘Can I explain why I wanted to jump off the top of a tower block?’ For disgraced TV presenter Martin Sharp the answer’s pretty simple: he has, in his own words, ‘pissed his life away’. And on New Year’s...

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How to be Good 21st February 2020

‘I am in a car park in Leeds when I tell my husband I don’t want to be married to him any more. . . ‘ London GP Katie Carr always thought she was a good person. With her...

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Fever Pitch 21st February 2020

Fever Pitch is Nick Hornby’s million-copy-selling, award-winnning football classic ‘A spanking 7-0 away win of a football book. . . inventive, honest, funny, heroic, charming’ Independent For many people watching football is mere entertainment, to some it’s more like...

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