RAPSCALLION MAGAZINE – film review: George Michael inspired song about last Christmas is the nation’s number one hit movie – but is slammed by critics – here’s what we think
Up until the last minute plot twist Last Christmas is an upbeat feel-good Christmas Rom-Com. It’s got Christmas trees, Christmas…
AXBRIDGE REVIEW: get ready for a spaghetti supper, family recriminations and a lost love affair in the play that made Bill Nighy famous (and it’s all in aid of the Axbridge Pageant 2020)
Axbridge Community Theatre are staging David Hare’s Laurence Olivier Award winning play Skylight in the town hall from Weds-Sat 27-30…
STRAWBERRY LINE TIMES – FEATURE: when you could earn six shillings a week on the railway, blackberries were loaded by the barrel in Cheddar and everyone looked slim, fit and healthy (but there were chocolate machines at Cheddar Railway Station)
This article appeared in the Strawberry Line Times Magazine in 2013 following a meeting with Shirley Hudd of Cheddar who…
HARRY MOTTRAM FREELANCE FEATURES: Now the High Street’s suppliers are being hit as DCI-Artform say they could ‘exit’ the business as sales dry up
Loughborough’s retail specialist DCI-Artform is in crisis with the threat of closure in the New Year. The firm’s boss David…
RAPSCALLION MAGAZINE FEATURE: Who will win the General Election? I think I know and here are the results – except it might not be what the polls are predicting – remember 1974?
Are Boris Johnson’s Conservatives on course for a big majority or could something unexpected by on the cards? Harry Mottram…
HARRY MOTTRAM FREELANCE FEATURES: Actors left unpaid as theatre company goes bust blaming Brexit and er… low audience numbers at the Blenheim Palace venue this summer
Parent company Lunchbox Theatrical Productions also goes pop Shakespeare and his fellow actors once dismantled a theatre and rebuilt it…
RAPSCALLION MAGAZINE DECEMBER diary: Noisy Nativity plus a ride across 1950s Latin America – and pantomimes open as yes – Christmas is coming!
Crazy Kid Carpet opens in Bristol with his own version of the Nativity as Harry Mottram looks forward to the…
AXBRIDGE REVIEW: the town’s progressive supper even gets onto the BBC airwaves as Radio Somerset get all excited about the annual event
An interview on Radio Somerset with Harry Mottram by Simon Parkin on Saturday, November 16th, 2019, about the event.
AXBRIDGE REVIEW Feature: Axbridge Square pictured in the 1970s before all the changes took place and an earlier photo of the Oakhouse Hotel (where you could buy petrol back in the day)
Axbridge Square has been a the site of a Saxon fort or burh, essentially a fortified town with its own…
AXBRIDGE REVIEW: Get ready for the Progressive Supper on Saturday – and here’s a few helpful tips
Progressive Supper is nearly here! We’re so excited for this years event, the biggest we’ve organised in recent years –…