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TUESDAY 8 OCTOBER
Presented by Francine Stock
DOLLY PARTON
Francine Stock talks to Dolly Parton who will begin her British tour in Manchester next month.
Halos and Horns by Dolly Parton is available on the Sugar Hill label. She plays here at the Bridgewater Hall in Manchester in November, then in London, Belfast, Glasgow and Dublin.
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MANDELA'S LAND
Two dramas about the post-apartheid period in South Africa, first presented at the Market Theatre in Johannesberg, are playing under the banner Mandela’s Land at the Royal Exchange Theatre. On My Birthday (pictured above) is a domestic tragedy set in a township, while The Dead Wait cuts between the war in Angola and Namibia in the early 1980s . Manchester playwright Charlotte Keatley and South African born playwright and academic David Evans review them for Front Row.
The Mandela’s Land season featuring The Dead Wait and On My Birthday continues at the Royal Exchange Theatre in Manchester until October 26.
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JOHN SHUTTLEWORTH ON MARTIN PARR
A Martin Parr photograph view from John Shuttleworth, whose creator Graham Fellows got to know Parr after being photographed by him for a newspaper and, in the guise of John Shuttleworth, helped to launch the Bradford exhibition
Martin Parr’s exhibition Photographic Works 1971-2000 is on at the National Museum of Film, Photography and Television, Bradford, until January 5.
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BILL LONGSHAW
In 1962, a new exhibition at the Lowry Centre in Salford, local artist and curator Bill Longshaw has recreated a street facade typical of Manchester and Salford forty years ago. the creator of Coronation Street Tony Warren and Bill Longshaw discuss the idea behind the exhibition.
Bill Longshaw’s installation, 1962, can be experienced at the Lowry, Salford, until January 12. A CD of Steve Hopkin’s soundtrack is available from the Lowry.
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Royal Exchange Theatre: Mandela's Land
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