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"I talked to people, and they said, “Why do you need the arts?” but that's the bit that makes you a real person, and not a statistic."
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An interview with… Jessica Reilly and Alistair Nunn
This March, James Graham’s Quiz arrives at the Old Fire Station (3–7 March 2026), bringing with it one of the most gripping, surprising and hotly debated true stories in modern British pop culture. Most...
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Phase 2, session 5, 20 October 2025 No warm-up, physical or vocal, just a ring of chairs upon which we plonked ourselves and chatted easily until called to order. Polly revealed that we would...
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