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Axbridge Review: UPDATED FOR 2025 – everything you wanted to know about the Annual Axbridge Charity Progressive Supper but were afraid to ask – including the things you should never do on the night

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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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Axbridge News Theatre Review: Axbridge Community Theatre stage a stylish production of Harold Pinter’s sinister play The Birthday Party (but we’re still not sure what it was all about)

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No wonder everyone was so slim in the 1950s, what with post war rationing and Meg’s low-calorie breakfasts which consisted…

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ICSM Business News: Hammersmith’s Riverside Studios collapses into administration while other venues struggle 

Mar 30, 2023 harrymottram

By Harry Mottram: The actors’ trade publication The Stage, has revealed that the Hammersmith venue in London for the performing arts…

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Rapscallion Magazine: stuck between heaven and hell without a passport – my 36 Hours in Rome’s Airport

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The lost souls of Rome’s airport As I walked out into the cool night air at Bristol Airport, I felt…

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Bath Voice Exhibitions in April: includes America in Crisis at Claverton, New English Art at the Victoria and the art of Durer at The Holburne

Mar 28, 2023 harrymottram

MARCH 28, 2023 Exhibition Picks in BathAmerican Museum, Bath. Claverton. The Museum features collections from the United States where you can…

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Bath Voice Theatre What’s On in April: Kyiv Ballet at The Theatre Royal Bath, Bond the Unauthorised Parody at the Rondo and Waiting For Godot at The Mission Theatre

Mar 28, 2023 harrymottram

MARCH 28, 2023 Theatre Picks In BathSat 1 Apr. Rondo Theatre, Bath. Bond, an unauthorised Parody. 8pm. By Gavin Robertson. Bond…

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Bath Voice What’s On in April: Talks at Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution, a Comedy Festival and the Bath Jewish Burial Ground Open Day

Mar 28, 2023 harrymottram

MARCH 28, 2023 Pick of Diary Events in BathMon 1- Sun 23 Apr. Bath comedy Festival. Various venues and events. These…

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Bath Voice News: Cross Party support in the House of Commons for the Bath MP’s Workplace Sexual Harassment Bill as it passes its second reading

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MARCH 27, 2023 By Harry Mottram: There has been widespread support amongst MPs of all political parties in Westminster for Bath…

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Axbridge News: this week’s play in the town hall is brought to life in colour as the cast prepare for the first night of Harold Pinter’s The Birthday Party with photos by Adam Clutterbuck

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By Harry Mottram: With just hours to go before the actors of Axbridge Community Theatre (ACT) tread the boards in…

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Axbridge News: ‘Save our Trees’ poster appears as plans to build homes off Houlgate Way would see trees felled and parking restricted

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  • Home
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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