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Nick Hennegan talks all things Dylan Thomas at the Wheatsheaf Pub in London - after a wreath laying ceremony at Westminster Abbey.

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Direct download: Dylan_Thomas_2016_Part_1_-_16_11_2016.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 10:08pm UTC

A classic tale for Halloween, by non other than Rudyard Kipling!  His 1904 story, 'They'

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Direct download: Haloween_They._Rudyard_Kipling.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 10:19pm UTC

Writer Lucy Beresford talks to Nick Hennegan from The London Literary Pub Crawl about her new book Hungry For Love.  She also talks about her sex-therapy, radio and TV career and how she started in the business.

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Direct download: Lucy20Beresford20-20173A063A20162C2016.16.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 7:58pm UTC

Nick Hennegan supported the first International Dylan Thomas celebrations last year.  In 2016 he was involved with Dylan Day again, with the help of Literature Wales.  Hear Dylan's 'Return Journey' and Nick chat to to a number of Thomas experts, including Hilly Janes and John Goodby as well as random artists and poets at The Wheatsheaf Pub in London, where Dylan met his wife and where the Dylan Thomas walks start. First broadcast on Resonance 104.4FM, London's arts radio station.

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Direct download: Dylan_day_2016_-_20_05_2016_15.05_2.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 2:02pm UTC

Nick Hennegan supported the first International Dylan Thomas celebrations last year.  In 2016 he was involved with Dylan Day again, with the help of Literature Wales.  Hear Dylan's 'Return Journey' and Nick chat to to a number of Thomas experts, including Hilly Janes and John Goodby as well as random artists and poets at The Wheatsheaf Pub in London, where Dylan met his wife and where the Dylan Thomas walks start. First broadcast on Resonance 104.4FM, London's arts radio station.

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Direct download: Dylan20day20201620-20203A053A20162C2015.05.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 1:42pm UTC

Nick Hennegan talks to writer Glenn Chandler, creator of the longest running TV Detective series in the world, Tagart, about his latest project, The Sins of Jack Saul, the story of a Victorian rent-boy!

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Direct download: Sins20of20Jack20Saul.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 12:48pm UTC

Nick Hennegan talks to Issy van Randwick, formerly of Fascinating Aida, about a festival at The Hampstead Theatre. Then (23 mins in) he visits Fitzrovia to talk about the Fitzrovia Centre and a charity event with Griff Rhys Jones.

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Direct download: Hampstead202620Fitzrovia20-20183A033A20162C2013.56.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 7:02pm UTC

Nick joins Will Derham, writer of Lost Ireland, and the Crane family, publishers of the book and owners of the new Chiswick Book Shop, on the day of the book's UK launch.

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Direct download: Chiswick_Bookshop__Lost_Ireland_launch.m4a
Category:general -- posted at: 11:47pm UTC

Nick Hennegan ventures to Park Street in London's Southwark, to watch a professional production of Hamlet - in a genuine Elizabethan Theatre UNDER a modern office block!  Artistic Associate Suzanne Taylor explains the remarkable story of how a group of actors and well-wishers managed to change the law in the UK a few years ago - and the future for the first Elizabethan Theatre on London's South Bank.

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Direct download: Rose20Hamlet20-20053A023A20162C2014.47.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 5:04pm UTC

On Valentine's weekend, Nick Hennegan descends on the Raven Pub in Hammersmith, London W6.  It's late at night, but the locals like an eclectic mix of music and poetry, including Aretha Franklin, Van Morrison, Robbie Burns, Bryan Ferry, Annie Lennox, Lord John Wilmot, William Shakespeare and more.

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Direct download: Valentines_Special_12_02_2016_18.29_1.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 9:25pm UTC

Nick Hennegan talks to Fiona Rule about her new book, 'Streets of Sin - A Dark Biography of Notting Hill.'  Not just Richard Curtis and Hugh Grant but the Murders of John Christie, notorious landlord Rachman and a fascinating and colourful history of a special area of London!

 

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Direct download: Notting_Hill_-_Streets_of_Sin.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 8:49pm UTC

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