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Creative Cardiff Bay play
11th January 2015
by Mark Hawkins
I was able to take a wander around a newly opened waterside section of Poth Teigr in Cardiff Bay this week. A hub for the creative industries promoted with moderate fanfare by a Welsh Government Minister or two in recent months, it most prominently contains the BBC’s Roath Lock Drama Village. The imposing BBC Wales […]
Patterns of passion
20th May 2014
by Mark Hawkins
When you have a lifelong passion, there are beats and rhythms which can seem inescapable. They might fade in and out but they often recur if you just can’t give it up. There are less savoury comparisons with addiction, the way habits and cravings almost develop a life of their own. For me, this […]
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States of independence
4th July 2013
by Mark Hawkins
This post was sparked both by today being Independence Day, and by a BBC documentary broadcast last week, entitled “Vivian Maier: Who Took Nanny’s Pictures?” The fascinating documentary tells the story of a thoroughly independent nanny who died in 2009, leaving behind thousands of photographs. Never seen in her lifetime, they were found by […]