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Rapscallion Magazine Theatre Review: a game of two halves in RSC’s Much Ado About Nothing with bling, balls, boobs – but no escaping the daft plot and misogynist Tudor morals

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Rapscallion Magazine Book Review: A troubled marriage, a brutal battle and the ignorance of the British expats in 1940s Egypt in Olivia Manning’s The Levant Trilogy as the Nazis threaten to invade, but it’s all about Harriet and Guy Pringle

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Rapscallion Magazine Restaurant Review: Afro beat and performers interrupt a lunch under the trees in Marseille’s Stalingrad Square

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Restaurant Review: Les Danaïdes Restaurant, Marseille It was a question of passing out in the heat and collapsing onto the…

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Postcard from Marseille: the not so edgy city with its tourists, the rain and my plastic mac – but no elephants

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By Harry Mottram: Go to Marseilles they said, it’s edgy and dangerous – and there’s no tourists they said and…

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Rapscallion Magazine Film Review: a pianist’s critical note to Stalin brings an end to the dictator as he lies dying in his own urine

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Film Review: The Death of Stalin: Putin and his mafia cronies banned the 2017 movie because they are paranoid and…

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ICSM Business News Headliners: London Irish Rugby Union Club on the brink as the exiles are given until 6 June to pay wages or face expulsion

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By Harry Mottram: The Rugby Football Union has given London Irish until Tuesday 6 June, 2023, to pay outstanding wages and…

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ICSM Business News: recession or no recession – concerns mount with the highest level of insolvencies since the Credit Crunch when a run on the Northern Rock Bank heralded an economic nightmare

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By Harry Mottram: Earlier this year experts ruled out the chance of the UK falling into a recession this year predicting…

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Rapscallion Magazine Feature: Cider, cigarettes and Letraset… confessions of a 70s art student

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By Harry Mottram: One pint of cider for 30p and you began to slur your words. Three pints and it was…

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RAPSCALLION MAGAZINE BOOK REVIEW: sex, secrets and violence – and a coming of age neo-Gothic mystery set within the shadow of Franco’s Spain in The Shadow of the Wind by Carlo Ruiz Zafon

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By harrymottram  DEC 5, 2020 The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon Teenager Daniel Sempere is the beneficiary…

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Axbridge News: Axbridge Community Theatre confirm their November production – a hilarious satire set in a remote Russian village

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By Harry Mottram: When the Ukrainian writer Nikolai Gogol decided to write a play he was frightened that the Russian…

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Bath Voice News: the city’s Fringe Festival includes Bluffing Your Way in Ballet at the Mission Theatre (plus more dance shows in June and this autumn)

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MAY 22, 2023 By Harry Mottram: Comedy, drama, music and yes dance. Bath Fringe Festival has so much but dance is…

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Axbridge Pageant: The 1920s and 1930s when the town modernised during the 20th century and some residents enjoyed inside toilets, women got the vote and education was compulsory up to the age of 14

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By Harry Mottram: This is an article from the 2022 Axbridge Pageant programme. War gave way to peace and a…

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  • Publications
    • Axbridge Review
      • Axbridge Pageant 2029
      • Comment
      • Features
        • ACT’s early days
        • Axbridge Pageant 2022
        • Axbridge Pageant 2022
        • Axbridge Pageant archive
        • Axbridge Pageant Features
        • Axbridge Square
        • Axbridge Square in 1952
        • Basle Air Disaster
        • Books and wine
        • Building Cheddar Reservoir
        • Litter picking in the rain
        • Megan’s Axbridge Part 1
        • Megan’s Axbridge Part 2
        • Megan’s Axbridge Part 3
        • Progressive Supper Details
        • Progressive Supper Review
      • News
      • Reviews
      • Somerset News
    • Bath Voice
      • Bath Voice Features
      • Bath Voice News
      • Bath Voice Theatre Reviews
      • Bath Voice What’s On
      • Film Reviews
      • Places Reviewed
      • Theatre Reviews
    • Beautiful Brides
      • Editing Beautiful Brides Magazine
    • Bristol News
      • Features
      • News
      • Previews
      • Theatre Previews
      • Theatre Reviews
    • Checkaco Consumer News
    • Children’s Theatre
      • Features
      • Interviews
      • REVIEWS: Books
      • REVIEWS: Films
      • REVIEWS: Theatre
      • The Magazine
      • Theatre Reviews
      • Videos
    • ICSM Business News
    • Print Monthly
    • Somerset Life
    • Strawberry Line Times
      • Cheddar Reservoir
      • Features
        • 1981 floods
        • Age of the train is returning
        • Along the line in 1899
        • Banwell bombed
        • Beaching rail closures
        • Birnbeck Pier: a brief history
        • Blue remembered hills
        • Bridgwater Carnival numbers
        • Bridgwater Railway Hotel
        • Bridgwater’s old pubs
        • Bristol’s own Bluebell girl
        • Building Cheddar reservoir in the 1930s
        • Burnham footballers
        • Coffee on the line
        • Fish and Chips
        • Highbridge at war
        • Highbridge Caravans
        • How far can the Strawberry Line go?
        • How to make the perfect cuppa
        • Jilted bride
        • Looking Back in Pictures
        • Miss Emily Fazerkerley
        • Old Highbridge recalled
        • Quantock memories
        • Railway workers of Cheddar
        • Renegades Carnival Club
        • Somerset’s Italian POWs
        • The Big Freeze
        • Then and Now
        • Transforming the line
        • Walk around the Res
      • News
      • Reviews
        • Reviews Music
        • REVIEWS: Books
        • REVIEWS: Books – Non Fiction
        • REVIEWS: Cinema
        • REVIEWS: food and drink
        • REVIEWS: Poetry
        • REVIEWS: talking books
        • REVIEWS: Theatre
        • REVIEWS: Video
      • The Magazine
      • Videos
    • West Country Riders
    • Western Daily Press
  • Rapscallion Magazine
    • Features
      • 36 Hours in Rome’s Airport
      • Bad New Year’s Resolutions
      • Beautiful Brides Magazine
      • Ben Nevis and Poo Rock
      • Confessions of an art student
      • Dodgy keepers
      • Don’t punch the critic
      • Drunk Goldilocks
      • Dying for a pee
      • Edward Colston’s statue
      • Footballing nuns
      • Holiday hell
      • Indigenous Australians
      • Maggie Smith
      • Mum on TV
      • Night with Sasha
      • Nobody fell over
      • Perfect cuppa
      • Tenby Part 1
      • The Bag Lady
      • The Spiv
      • Tourists in Rome
    • Opinion
    • Reviews
      • Books
      • Cinema
      • Radio
      • Theatre
      • TV
    • The Magazine
      • 2015 08 August Issue 1
      • 2015 09 September Issue 2
      • 2015 10 October Issue 3
      • 2015 11 November Issue 4
      • 2016 07 July Issue 05
      • 2017 01 January
      • 2020 12 Rapscallion Magazine December
      • 2021 11 November Rapscallion
      • 2022 07 Rapscallion
      • 2022 11 November
      • 2023 01 January Issue 12
      • Rapscallion Magazine 13 May 2023