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Monday Interview with retiring British tenor Ian Partridge, at RAM. Highlights: IP’s piano teacher at Clifton had only one arm, which, while apparently being no hindrance at the keyboard, didn’t help his driving any; IP once hit 78 n.o. (a career best) in an effort to avoid an organ lesson with same; and once, while […]

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Barnaby Brown and the triple-pipe

Friday, June 20, 2008

One bulky Sardinian man is yelling and gesticulating at another Sardinian man. My few words of Italian notwithstanding, it is evident these men are not enquiring after each other’s health. The head-to-head has been raging for some 45 minutes, and the crowd has started to join in. I make a mental note of the nearest […]

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‘Additional reporting by…’

Sunday, December 24, 2006

from a Sunday Times (UK) tsunami-anniversary article, the headline of which I’m not prepared to repeat. — For The Sunday Times

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Category Archives: correspondence

Chicken dancing, naughty Tamil literature, and Rana Dasgupta goes Solo (outdoors)

(Beer and) Roving on the literary circuit

Geoff Dyer, Michael Frayn, and other people who were or were not there

In which the author expresses his love for Wendy Cope

Colombo’s inaugural* Art Biennale*

Diary of an ordinary week

Barnaby Brown and the triple-pipe

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