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Continue reading →: Report on Bangladesh Part II – Those who have no TV to hide behind
By Ken Powell (originally published in the Egremont 2Day newspaper) I WROTE last time about the security issues travelling around Bangladesh on my trip last February. These aren’t imagined dangers and they’re not just aimed at foreigners either. While we were out in the villages enjoying the best home-made curry…
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Continue reading →: Walls or Bridges? A Two-part report on Bangladesh
Originally published at the Egremont 2Day newspaper in March 2016 By Ken Powell ken@egremont2day.co.uk Part One WELL I survived my trip to Bangladesh – did you miss me? No, never mind, better I don’t know! You may recall my nerves about going last month. Things are a bit volatile over…
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Continue reading →: Big picture meets the nitty-gritty: the struggle of writing a TEDx talk
Reblogged from my personal blog kenthinksaloud. It sounded like such a good idea at the time. Yeah of course I’d love give a talk at TEDx Whitehaven! And I did want to – I do want to. But, that old, old problem which faces most writers has arisen as I’ve struggled to write…
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Continue reading →: Book Review: The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
The Red Tent by Anita Diamant My rating: 3 of 5 stars “The Red Tent” by Anita Diamant is a very interesting novel which tries to see the Biblical stories of Jacob and his sons from the point of view of the ‘forgotten’ daughter Dinah and, to an extent, present…
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Continue reading →: On becoming a TEDx speaker
Originally posted on my personal blog – kenthinksaloud . My TEDx talk takes place on Wednesday 7 September in Whitehaven, Cumbria. I hope to see some of you guys there! Uff so sorry guys that it has been an age since I last posted. I really need to pay more attention to…
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Continue reading →: Review: Nripoti by Humayun Ahmed
by Ken Powell Monday 25 July saw a fascinating performance at Manchester’s Z-Arts theatre by ADDA, a cultural arts group which draws its members largely from the Bangladeshi community. For me, it was a most special event. ‘Nripoti’ (The King) is a play by Humayun Ahmed, a famous and well-respected…
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Continue reading →: Book Review: A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini My rating: 5 of 5 stars ‘A Thousand Splendid Suns’, like the author’s other world-famous book ‘The Kite Runner’, is a book I will probably never read again. Some books are so bad you regret the wasted hours of life you lost reading…
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Continue reading →: Theatre Review: The Professor of Adventure
This review was originally published in the Egremont 2Day in April 2016. Millican Dalton was, without doubt, an oddbod. This self-styled ‘Professor of Adventure’ who left his city job to hide away in a cave in Borrowdale was an eccentric who was famous locally and enjoyed greater national fame in…
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Continue reading →: Theatre Review: The Shepherd’s Life
This review was originally published in the Egremont 2Day in April 2016 This new play based on the bestselling book by James Rebanks and adapted for the stage by Chris Monks, is a bold venture for Keswick’s Theatre by the Lake. With puppets and local volunteers taking important roles, big…
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Continue reading →: Book Review: Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy My rating: 2 of 5 stars This classic novel should subtitled, in my opinion, as “A Tale of Three Bad Men”. It’s not entirely fair to consider a book written nearly 130 years ago from a modernist point of view (or post-modernist if…
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