Category: Articles

2 September 2013

Nina Finds a Niche

Angry about abusive social media messages? Worried about elderly parents needing a care home? Looking for ideas of places to go and things to do now that teenage children have fled the nest? Young mothers discuss the important issues in their lives via websites such as www.mumsnet.com. Now there is a website aimed at a slightly older and perhaps more sophisticated woman – and it […]

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30 August 2013

Review of Come and Sing Oliver! Snape Proms

Singing makes you feel good. I can’t tell you why but, whether it is singing to songs on the radio or (in my case) when I go to Felixstowe Community Choir each Monday to sing with a crowd of other people, my heart lifts, a smile comes on my face and the world seems a brighter place. That could be why the sing-along events at […]

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23 August 2013

Review of the Poetry Prom 2013, Snape Maltings Concert Hall

Two poets that made us laugh and one that made us think. Naomi Jaffa, Director of the Poetry Trust, pointed out, in her welcome to the Poetry Prom 2013 at Snape Maltings Concert Hall, that we were the biggest poetry audience outside of London. She described the poets that were to read for us: Wendy Cope (“funny and serious at the same time”), David Constantine, […]

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20 August 2013

Review of Flavia Coelho, Snape Proms

Imagine a young Tina Turner in skin tight golden leggings and black halter-neck top emerging, with a sexy flicking of her hips, from a cloud of dry ice into the spot-lit stage. Not Tina Turner of course, but a Brazilian rock chic who then starts singing and dancing the samba! Now you have a little idea of what the Snape Proms audience experienced when Flavia […]

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12 August 2013

Review of Jaleo Flamenco, Snape Proms

First a confession. I know nothing about the traditions and technicalities of flamenco. The other time I have seen it performed was on a holiday in Seville several years ago. But the movements, stamping, clapping and music (and the heat) all left a huge impression upon me. The great thing about Snape Proms is that every year Aldeburgh Music brings to Suffolk, as part of […]

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12 August 2013

Diary of The Cruise: A Life at Sea- Dubai to Southampton

Day 90: Dubai 26° As Rachael Jackson, Fred.Olsen's PR manager, hadn’t disembarked when we arrived from the UK, we all dashed around the ship meeting key people on board. Jetlagged, I promptly forgot just about everyone but luckily Kevin has a much better memory for faces. Then we were on our own to supervise a film crew! Day 91: At sea, from midday. 36° Attended […]

Inside the Clifford Road air raid shelter museum

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5 August 2013

Wartime Memories Rekindled

Some tourist attractions are a little out of the ordinary. Standing at the top of a flight of steps leading down into the tunnels of a spacious air raid shelter beneath a school playground , it is hard not to experience a shiver when you remember why it was built. How the children, clutching their gas masks, with sirens wailing, would have been hurried underground […]

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5 August 2013

Behind the Scenes….at “The Cruise: a Life at Sea”.

How does a Suffolk-based cruise company react when the BBC asks if they can film a TV series about the chaplain on a round-the-world voyage? With mixed feelings? "We were very excited to undertake our most ambitious filming project with the BBC earlier this year, said Nathan Philpot, Sales and Marketing Director for Fred. Olsen Cruise Lines, “and we hope that it will give […]

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2 August 2013

Review of Celebrating Sinatra, John Wilson Orchestra

Snape Proms, 1 August 2013 It was the hottest evening of the summer so far with the temperatures outside Snape Maltings Concert Hall over 30 degrees. Inside it was about to get hotter, with the opening of Snape Proms 2013, featuring the best orchestra playing non-classical music that I have ever heard; In the jam-packed hall expectations were high as the John Wilson Orchestra tuned […]

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28 June 2013

The Cruise: A Life at Sea

PR Assignment April 2013 latest: Look out for 'The Cruise: A Life at Sea', a six-week series that started on BBC2, Tuesday 9th July 2013, 8.30pm. 'Balmoral' was on her longest-ever 'World Cruise' earlier this year and viewers will find out what life is like for the Chaplain on board, Reverend Colin Still, exploring the globe and discovering his 'parish at sea'. Meet the guests […]