Author Archives: Ian Cundell

A date for your diary

Julie Mayhew’s play Stopgap airs on Radio 4 tomorrow, 8 September. 2:15pm. Oh, and the new VWC season starts at 8pm.

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Kate Allan’s book of the heart

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Knowing why we cry

I have been thinking about last week’s finale of Dr Who (or rather the last two weeks, it was a two parter). I know what you’re thinking: a) you sad git and b) what’s that got to do with crying? … Continue reading

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Operational note

We now haz mobile capabilities. Innit. Check it out on your iPhone Droid-y thing.

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Oh, sod off

It is because we don’t have one of these that English is the global language. In the English language, the rules are, as often as not, more honor’d in the breach than the observance.

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Memo to fans: let the storyteller tell it

The past week has seen the conclusion of two popular (probably influential, arguably seminal) TV series, the BBC’s Life on Mars/ Ashes to Ashes and ABC’s Lost. Both series dealt with strikingly similar themes (I’ll put them under the broad … Continue reading

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Welsh men might be offended

Our chum Imran Ahmad shares his experience of visiting the Emirates Airline Festival of Literature in Dubai.  And possibly offends half the Welsh nation at the same time.

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The Get Writing 2010 Conference Cup

In all the post-Get Writing 2010 hubbub, I’ve just noticed that we completely forgot to record the result of the Get Writing Short Story competition. As a wise man once said: oops. So, for the record: GW10 was  the first … Continue reading

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Get Writing 2010: Don’t take our word for it

Helen J Beal has been most generous with her praise

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Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year….

…from everyone at Verulam Writers’ Circle. (Although don’t feel obliged to marry Christmas, as my initial mistyping for the headline said).

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