November 2022 – Harry Mottram

Thu. Nov 21st, 2024

Rapscallion Magazine Theatre Review: Silent Faces brilliantly lampoons the block on female only productions of Beckett’s Waiting For Godot in a play that wittily takes the misogynistic decision to task

Nov 27, 2022 harrymottram

Review: Godot Was A Woman Ban women from performing your play and you become a hostage to fortune and more…

FEATURE: From Homes fit for Heroes to council flats – and how prefabs helped to house thousands of victims of wartime bombing

Nov 24, 2022 harrymottram

By Harry Mottram: If you go down to Badocks Wood in Henleaze, Bristol, and head up towards the Southmead Round Barrow…

Rapscallion Magazine Feature: when Bristol City was a football power house in Edwardian England and ‘Fatty’ Wedlock was their star player – decades before the World Cup was created

Nov 21, 2022 harrymottram

When ‘Fatty’ Wedlock took City to the FA Cup Final By Harry Mottram. They often say you can be fat and…

RAPSCALLION MAGAZINE feature: the day Tarzan was desperate for a pee but ended up sitting on a toilet on the centre court in Wimbledon

Nov 20, 2022 harrymottram

RAPSCALLION MAGAZINE feature: the day Tarzan was desperate for a pee but ended up sitting on a toilet on the…

Feature: A short (and hidden) history of women’s rugby union

Nov 19, 2022 harrymottram

By Harry Mottram: Despite over 130 years of rugby union played by a wide variety of club teams in Bristol…

Rapscallion Magazine Book Review: a nightmarish run through a post apocalyptic Britain in Adrian J Walker’s The End of The World Running Club in which the landscape is almost as grim as the characters

Nov 18, 2022 harrymottram

Book Review. The End of the World Running Club by Adrian J Walker: Set in the future after the world is…

Rapscallion Magazine Radio Review: Simon Fanshaw’s exploration of Gilbert Harding – The Rudest Man In Britain – but also a man ahead of his time – despite being a man from another poorer era

Nov 16, 2022 harrymottram

Radio Review. The Rudest Man in Britain. BBC Radio 4 Extra : It’s easy to forget how deferential Britain was in…

Rapscallion Magazine Book Review: from a grey and depressed post war London to flood hit Florence Sarah Winman’s Still Life covers interconnected lives in the middle of the 20th century – but speech marks are absent making conversations hard to follow at times

Nov 16, 2022 harrymottram

Book Review, Still Life by Sarah Winman: A novel that spans the decades from Wartime Italy to Post War London and…

Rapscallion Magazine Diary: despite calling for a boycott of the FIFA World Cup in Qatar I’ll be watching the games on TV like a first class hypocrite

Nov 15, 2022 harrymottram

A Rapscallion’s Diary: October 2022I am a hypocrite. I nod in agreement with Greta Thunberg about global warming but drive…

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