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Voyeur or Voyager by Hinchcliffe and Hodgson

July 7th, 2008 | No Comments

Voyeur or Voyager by Hinchcliffe and Hodgson

The Mayor of London sold me an Oyster and I took it to South Kensington.


The Single Gentleman by Pat Rogers

April 1st, 2008 | No Comments

The Single Gentleman by Pat Rogers

You can’t get a signal for a mobile in my local Morrisons [...]


Inmaculada, Part-time cleaner, Whalley Range by Joanne Mateer

March 13th, 2008 | No Comments

Inmaculada, Part-time cleaner, Whalley Range by Joanne Mateer

Eleven and half. Autobus very busy. Estoy harta ya.


Mrs Oh Baby and the Motorist by Rex Davies

March 12th, 2008 | No Comments

Mrs Oh Baby and the Motorist by Rex Davies

This is the brief but tender story of the fella who had a thing about his SatNav.


Flatpack World by Pete Beeston

March 8th, 2008 | 1 Comment

Flatpack World by Pete Beeston

Pete’s ode to the trauma of putting together your flatpack furniture.


Requiem for…Ghosts in our veins by Kaimani

March 7th, 2008 | No Comments

Requiem for…Ghosts in our veins by Kaimani

A truly moving piece - it had the room completely silent, transfixed.


Towser by Brian Trevelyan

January 3rd, 2008 | 1 Comment

He was just a cat, when I first met him. He sniffed round me, unsure of me, then warmed to me when I offered him peekaboo fingers round Jude’s gatepost


Chapter 15: The Burbage Picnic (extract from Starbirth) by Jude Calvert-Toulmin

December 4th, 2007 | No Comments

Chapter 15: The Burbage Picnic (extract from Starbirth) by Jude Calvert-Toulmin

Ben comes into the kitchen and immediately there is a relief that we are alone [...]


Chapter 7 - Joey Zebrowski, a novel extract from Starbirth by Jude Calvert-Toulmin

October 19th, 2007 | No Comments

The phone call should be a clue as to what Joey is like. But I have already spent a long time weaving a beautiful and detailed tapestry in my mind of what Joey is like and I am satisfied with the result.


Sheffield In Blue by Peter Beeston

October 19th, 2007 | 1 Comment

Pete performed this live on the night using our wonderful screen and projector.


Momento Mori by Hinchcliffe and Hodgson

October 19th, 2007 | No Comments

Momento Mori by Hinchcliffe and Hodgson has been inspired by the painting, ?Man with Skull? by an anonymous follower of Jose de Riberra.


Report on Sheffield Floods by Richard Poppleton

July 5th, 2007 | No Comments

“3, 2, 1, and you’re on air”

“Hello this is John Fortescue-Smyth, BAFTA award-winning journalist reporting today for the BBC from flood-ravaged South Yorkshire.”


Letter from a portrait by Hinchliffe and Hodgson

July 5th, 2007 | No Comments

Letter from a portrait, by Hinchcliffe and Hodgson has been adapted from L.S. Lowry’s ‘The Firewatcher’ (1943) which can be seen currently at the new Weston Park Museum, Sheffield.


The Hanging Men by Lyn Lockwood (extract)

June 7th, 2007 | No Comments

Nobody really knew who was the first person to encounter the hanging men that morning, but there were hundreds of them, hovering over each crossroads and meeting place, town entrances and exits, the doors to the Hall and the lanes down to the beach.


Minty Bonnard by Hinchcliffe & Hodgson

June 7th, 2007 | No Comments

Inspired by a Pierre Bonnard painting of a female nude (belonging to the Graves Art Gallery) but not currently on show, Minty Bonnard describes the agonising and protracted departure of the young woman’s lover early one winter’s morning.
You had to go. You couldn’t stay. I don’t know why.
You held me close and, as the morning [...]