Cause and Effect
After a lifetime trying to make the world a better place, Chris Savory has written a book about his years as a peace activist. He talked to Fergus Byrne. Taking part in the World Peace march across America in 1982, Read more »
Features
Angles of Inspiration
Devon artist Richard Kaye talks to Fergus Byrne Despite there being no shortage of ‘lockdown’ blogs on the internet the full results of the last few months of enforced isolation will probably take decades to unravel. In the early Read more »
Anthony Hurst
‘I owe an enormous debt of gratitude to my mother Peggy Hurst who told me much about my family and even after his death talked so much about my father Gordon. Although I remember Gordon as a person in my Read more »
Rural Voices
Through ‘The Inclusion Agency’, writer Louisa Adjoa Parker has been trying to increase understanding between different ethnic groups and seeking out their experiences in the West Country. Earlier this year The Inclusion Agency (TIA) launched a project which aimed to Read more »
When a Picture Paints a Thousand Words
A film shows a lone fisherman sitting in a tent on an empty beach after sunset, while a rusting yellow digger waits on the quay for its next job. The only movement is the tide and washing left to dance Read more »
Unsteady Progress – A History of Axminster from 1701 to 2000
Just as Covid-19 was laying waste to everyone’s plans for 2020, we received a copy of a hefty new local history, written by David Knapman, one of the volunteers at Axminster Heritage Centre. Now that life and business are starting Read more »
Into the Wildlight
Dorset musicians, Ava and Elijah Wolf, are taking The Gravity Drive to another level. They talk to Fergus Byrne about their new album. For any artist, be they poet, painter, sculptor or songwriter, the moment of unveiling new work can Read more »
One Two Three Four
On the 50th anniversary of the break-up of The Beatles, Craig Brown, author of a new book on the band talks to Fergus Byrne In his 1994 interview for Desert Island Discs, Douglas Adams, who wrote much of the early Read more »
Bridport’s Film Festival Postponed until October
Just before the terms ‘self-isolate’ and ‘social distancing’ became part of our daily lives, Edith Bowman, curator of this year’s From Page to Screen film festival, spoke to Fergus Byrne about her love of film and the inspiration behind her Read more »
Oliver Letwin’s Apocalypse
Long before the coronavirus outbreak, The Right Honourable Sir Oliver Letwin was heavily involved in learning about Britain’s resilience in the face of what is termed a ‘Black Swan’ event, i.e. an event that is very rare. What he discovered Read more »