WILL STONE fact-checks the colourful life of Ozzy Osbourne
Taking the time to engage with the past
JAN WOOLF speaks to Richard Bradbury about his creative initiative in adult education, Riversmeet, and the political trajectory of the work
Nev Connor as Frederick Douglass at a rehearsed reading of The Ocean Can be A Bridge, by Richard Bradbury and Dave Samuels, in front of an invited audience from the local Caribbean, refugee and immigrant and refugee communities hosted by Art Share Exeter in Exeter Customs House
Frederick Douglass cca 1879
[Maureen Casey; George Kendall Warren/CC] 
JAMES CROSSLEY applauds a lucid biography of the German radical preacher who reemerged as a hero in the GDR
Prizes all round: the Bard hands plaudits to the Miners Gala, OT&JC, Joe Solo, Black Sabbath’s frontman and the Lionesses
Star cartoonist JAMIE BRITTON is in awe of a graphic novel of epic proportions that explores class, religion and globalisation via the strange cultivation of Ginseng in the US Midwest
GUILLERMO THOMAS is intrigued by a history of the Middle East that demonstrates how promising post colonial beginnings were snuffed out by Western imperialist interests
MARIA DUARTE recommends the intricate study of a high-performance and highly dysfuntional German family
NAMED after Richard Bradbury’s first novel about Frederick Douglass, the Riversmeet project combines literature with activism.
As the website declares, Riversmeet focuses on high-quality writing, performance and teaching which engages with contemporary issues by linking the past to the present.
Riversmeet is a quiet powerhouse; publishing books, producing theatre, short films and interesting blogs as well as running Slow Reading courses. Eschewing the tacky mission statement, it quotes Walter Benjamin: “In every era the attempt must be made anew to wrest tradition away from a conformism that is about to overwhelm it.”
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