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Birmingham Website - reviews, features etc I currently work for the BBC on the Birmingham website where I write their classical features and reviews and also film and play reviews. To see the site click on the link above, or follow any of the links below for a selection of the pieces. Film
Reviews Symphony
Hall Opera Ballet |
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Ahead Underground I am currently engaged in a mammoth project to scan the whole of my Ahead Underground manuscript which is a bound, typewritten copy, and run it through OCR software which will allow me to get it all on the computer where I can edit it. Extracts should start to appear soon!
I spent a lot of time in my teens and early
twenties caving (see elsewhere on this site). From the time when,
together with my friends, we began to explore some of the easier caves
not too far away, through to the point when, just a few years later,
having gained considerable experience underground and with a growing
and successful caving club to our credit, we began to explore an area
of North Staffordshire with the hope of finding some 'new' previously
undiscovered cave systems. Much to everyone's amazement, we succeeded
in our aims way beyond what we ever dreamed would be the case.
After the caving group disbanded and we all moved on to other things,
I thought it would be a shame to lose all the memories and accounts
of our adventures and so began to set them down using an old borrowed
typewriter. It took quite a couple of years to research and write
and here there will be some extracts from Ahead Underground as
I titled the work. |
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Article published in Cave and Caving, the newsletter of the BCRA (British Cave Research Association)
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...and Nothing But The Truth Reproduced here are extracts from the manuscript I have written about my experiences in the police service, provisionally titled "...and Nothing But The Truth". It recounts my experiences in the police from the time I joined until, after facing extreme bigotry and prejudice, I was required to resign for lack of duties. On top of all of this, I then found at least an equal amount of prejudice from gay people I had come to trust, because of my position in the police and some gay friends I thought I ought to be able to rely on and trust proved to be anything but reliable and trustworthy. It is an accurate and factual account, currently amounting to over 180,000 words. It needs a lot of revision and editing, but I already have a publisher interested. |
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Without Prejudice
Published in Police Review on 31st January 1997. |
