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last minute plans: 18:00 for 18:30 today Jackanory for Grown-Ups

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  1. unhurt
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    https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/when-we-were-young-jackanory-for-grown-ups-tickets-42979553000

    At the Portrait Gallery:

    "Join us for an evening of storytelling for grown-up bookworms with performed readings by very special guests actor and writer Gerda Stevenson and novelist Mary Paulson Ellis.

    Inspired by our When We Were Young exhibition we will take you on a journey through humorous and sometimes sinister themes of familiar and lesser-known childhood tales. Excerpts will include: Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland; J M Barrie’s Peter Pan; Betsy Whyte’s Yellow on the Broom; Thomas Hardy’s Jude the Obscure; and Tove Janson’s Summer Book.

    Followed by Q&A with Guardian and Telegraph columnist Lucy Mangan speaking about the inspiration behind her new book, Bookworm: A Memoire of Childhood Reading (Penguin Random House 2018) and book signing.

    Ticket includes complementary refreshment.

    Doors open 6pm; event 6.30-7.30pm."

    Posted 6 years ago #

  2. Murun Buchstansangur
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    I expected this to be code for another Leith Walk tram 'consultation' event...

    Posted 6 years ago #

  3. Frenchy
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    I expected this to be code for another Leith Walk tram 'consultation' event...

    You could be onto something there.

    Posted 6 years ago #

  4. Klaxon
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    I thought it was going to be an invite to the pub

    Posted 6 years ago #

  5. unhurt
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    Suspicious heathens all!

    Posted 6 years ago #

  6. I were right about that saddle
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    Gerda Stevenson? I should really go. Thought it said 'compulsory refreshment' for a moment.

    Posted 6 years ago #

  7. unhurt
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    compulsed

    Posted 6 years ago #

  8. I were right about that saddle
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    Rabbie!

    Posted 6 years ago #

  9. unhurt
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    Seemed apt.

    This is SO GOOD. 40 minutes of readings and a bit of commentary and a wee rendition of The Yellow on the Broom . Now it's Lucy Mangan time but to be honest I'd prefer more reading aloud.

    Posted 6 years ago #

  10. Tulyar
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    I recall the much younger Gerda in a play at the Traverse, when you had to compete with rather large motor cars squeezing into the pend off the Grassmarket - loved the voice.

    Posted 6 years ago #

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