Harry Mottram

As Bath Festival approaches a look back to when the Bath Arts Workshop kickstarted the festival movement – now portrayed in a book – Bath Arts Workshop – charting the heady days in the city of the counterculture of the 1970s Rapscallion Magazine Book Review: Kazuo Ishiguro’s brilliantly clear and simple prose brings to life artificial humanoid Klara in a futuristic world of genetically enhanced children Rapscallion Magazine Radio Review: a moment of truth when deciding to defect from North Korea in Al Smith’s high drama account of Thae Yong-ho’s split second decision ‘to run’ Bath Voice News: Government outrage that Bath’s MP Wera Hobhouse was prevented from visiting relatives when entering Hong Kong airport by Communist officials and deported back to the UK Strawberry Line Times: when Banwell was bombed in World War Two – and Weston-super-Mare suffered its own Blitz