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We present audiodrama, poetry, short stories and extracts from novels and interviews drawn from that truly inspirational place that is the North East of England (although sometimes the boundaries have been somewhat extended!) Listen to our content online or by downloading our audio files so you can listen at your convenience. Please show your support for the site by subscribing to our newsletter.
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Latest content from listenupnorth.com I am very excited at last to bring you Celia - The Film, a very grown-up version of singing into your hairbrush on YouTube. I hope it will be the first episode of my 6 part webdrama which will complete the story arc of my heroine. Please enjoy and spread the link far & wide to help me attract interest & sponsorship.On the theme of water: a beautiful short story The Princess of Felling - River Tyne Memories by Elaine Cusack and an exquisite documentary film 150 by Jan Cawood on the restoration of the Saltburn-by the-Sea cliff lift.  This year's Newcastle Winter Book Festival had a great programme with writers of all genres and workshops - something to interest everybody. I was asked to interview and record some of the highly renowned visiting authors: Award winning children's writer David Almond, Ann Cleeves whose Vera books have just been made into a prime time TV series and MC Beaton author of the Hamish Macbeth and Agatha Raisin novels. These are now available for you to listen by clicking on the links above I am really pleased to feature extracts from Fight to the Finish (North East Community Projects), the writings and life story of the late Gordon MacPherson, Durham Miner from Easington Colliery. With extracts from the book read by his daughter Heather and son Gordon, Fight to the Finish provides us with a social history of community and wider world through the eyes of a working class man in the 20th century.The recording of extracts from Fight to the Finish is sponsored by Seaham Safety Services Ltd We are jetsetting in AJ Kirby's drama History and her Story. History lecturer, Dr Colin Ackers, awaits at airport arrivals for his wife. Then he sees Abigail, a former student, wheeling her suitcase towards him. Old feelings resurface once more as Colin and Abigail are thrown back to 1984 and reflect on what might have been. Welcome to the ultimate chill factor! Three of Geoff Holland's evocative poems about The Cheviots set to his amazing photographs: Cheviot October Chew Green The Border Line Our latest uploads are ghost stories for Halloween: A Quiet Night In, Pink Suede Boots and The Iron Gates.  On 17th October 2011, The Middlesbrough Transporter Bridge (affectionately known as 'The Tranny') reached it's 100th birthday. To celebrate, listenupnorth.com got together with WritersBlock NE to run a creative writing competition taking this iconic landmark as its inspiration. You can listen to the winning entries by following the links at the bottom of the FEATURE PAGEInspired by amazing Northumberland we bring you another short story Low Newton Beach from the pen of Simon van der Velde and poems about The Cheviot Hills (The Cheviot: October, The Border Line, Chew Green) from Geoff Holland. I am thrilled to introduce the trailer for my new short film Celia which will be released soon: Celia - The Trailer A selection of poetry from Tyneside writers Geoff Holland and John Oliver taking their inspiration from Tyneside landmarks, culture and boyhood memories. Links to their work can be found on their profile page. Allison Davies reads her poem Hattiban inspires by a motobike ride in the Himalayan foothills and Tinned Pie a short story through the eyes of a child who lives with a mother with OCD. Thank you for supporting listenupnorth.com |