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| Playwrights and Dramatists | Actors | Collectors | Potatoes,etc |
| Music | Theatre & Audio Theatre |
Wine and Beer Making........... | Go-Karting |
| Apples | US Radio Drama | Unusual audio books | Gardening |
| Energy and Power |
WRITERS
PLAYWRIGHTS, DRAMATISTS, PRODUCERS: THEIR OWN WEBSITES...
*d 1999; site run by Stanton family
**site run by his son Rupert Mallin, also a playwright.
RADIO DRAMA
UNUSUAL AUDIO BOOKSCrimson Cats, run by Michael Bartlett, publishes books on CD that are unlikely to be available in audio form anywhere else. Some of their titles: the Authentic Narrative of the Death of Lord Nelson by William Beatty, My Life and Times, the autobiography of Jerome K Jerome, The Beetle Hunter and Other Stories, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Everyman’s England, by Victor Canning, and Gods and Fighting Men, – the classic collection of Lady Gregory’s translations of the Irish stories of Finn McCool; many more titles; website at:-
www.crimsoncats.co.uk
US RADIO DRAMA - HOWARD BLUE
Howard has written "Words at War" - a book describing how 17 US radio
dramatists and their actors fought a war of words against fascism,
beginning in the late 30s. See Howard's website:
http://www.HowardBlue.com
RADIO DRAMA - the EDITH THOMPSON case
Molly Cutpurse, who writes about recent history, has
written an unusual novel about Edith Thompson's life, which was
published in 2005; details can be found on her website:
http://www.mollycutpurse.com/
More about the case on Shelagh Stephenson's page and in her play
"Darling Peidi" (1993).
Playwrights Database:
plays produced or published in
English since 1956:
http://www.doollee.com
RADIOLISTINGS
Impressive database of more recent (1997-) material
broadcast by BBC radio,
searchable in many different ways; assembled
by Paul Wells.
http://www.radiolistings.co.uk
INDEPENDENT RADIO DRAMA PRODUCTIONS
- the highly acclaimed
website...
articles by Tim Crooks and others:
http://www.irdp.co.uk
THEATRE & AUDIO THEATRE
AUDIO THEATRE / DRAMA : DREAMGATE
Creators of gothic, fantasy, science fiction and
witty radio drama. Titles include The Creatures of the Forest,
The Arch Bishop, The Dark Shire Trilogy and Witch Hunter.
http://dreamgate.studentenweb.org
WIRELESS THEATRE COMPANY
A new Audio Online Theatre Company producing audio plays, books, comedy sketches, short stories and more to be downloaded to Ipods, MP3 players, desktops and mobile phones direct from the site, free – no registering, no payment. It brings radio drama to the kids and keeps this wonderful medium alive.
http://www.wirelesstheatrecompany.co.uk
SLADJANA VUJOVIC
Sladjana Vujovic is a playwright; she is also joint artistic director of
two London based theatre companies which promote new writing
(including that of Andrew Rissik) and innovative
staging; web address
www.acttc.com.
Her personal website gives details of her work as director, writer, actress and educator, with
details of current
projects. It can be found at
www.sladjana.biz
For Archers Addicts
http://www.archers-addicts.com/
ACTORS
SOPHIE WINKLEMAN
http://www.sophiewinkleman.com
NATHANIEL PARKER
http://www.nathanielparker.com
JAMIE LEE
http://www.geocities.com/lee_wordie/
MUSIC - EARLY PIANO AND HARPSICHORD
HARPSICHORD MUSIC
Site of the British Harpsichord Society:
reviews, events and information
about the repertoire:
http://www.harpsichord.org.uk/
BRIAN BLOOD'S COMPOSER DIRECTORY
-An amazingly comprehensive index to
composer information. Under
construction, but many parts
accessible. The following will
get you to the "A" page; if you want "B"
(Bartok etc) use /cdefsb, and so on.
Slow loading because of the weight of
information.
http://www.dolmetsch.com/cdefsa.htm
PIANO PLAYING
Tammy Widjaja's site on piano technique. Tammy
is based in Indonesia. Good basic stuff, but some
sensible remarks for more advanced players too.
http://www.piano-lesson-online.com/
She has a second site devoted to Balinese
instruments:
http://www.bali-treasures.com/
KARTING
GO-KARTING
Go Karts R us! Manco Go Carts & Mini Bikes:
Go-Karts, Fun Carts, Mini-Bikes, ATV's and Scooters.
Complete Manco and Dinli online Parts Dept.
http://www.GoKartsRus.com/
INDOOR KARTING
The largest indoor karting company in the UK.
http://www.team-sport.co.uk/homepage.html
ENERGY
Power Generation and Energy
WIND TURBINES, NUCLEAR POWER, RENEWABLE ENERGY
www.habitat21.co.uk/
Site discussing renewable energy technology,
nuclear power, the greenhouse effect, wind turbines, and related
issues. Constructed and written by Nigel Deacon, owner of Diversity
Website.
JON RAY
Interesting and extensive blog site by an Australian academic which
attempts to separate fact from fiction in the wind energy debate.
http://antigreen.blogspot.com.
NUMBERWATCH
Professor John Brignell's site - designed to nail a few of the politicians, journalists,
so-called scientists and others who try to confuse us with the wrong numbers.
BBC RADIO PROGRAMMES:
COLLECTORS, ARCHIVES
Collectors
THE BRITISH COMEDY WEBSITE
is the leading UK comedy resource on the web. It's run by Steve Arnold, who
has also added drama pages to the site. Web address:
www.Britishcomedy.org.uk
www.Britishdrama.org.uk
FEATURES AND DOCUMENTARIES
Chris Butterfield, who collects
radio documentaries and features, is putting together an
archive of recordings. The site
can be found at:
http://www.tapehunter.org.uk/
and
http://www.preciousvoices.co.uk/tapehunter/
JEREMY STEVENSON RADIO SOUND ARCHIVE
The Jeremy Stevenson Archive is probably the best and largest private archive of off-air BBC recordings
(comedy and drama) in the UK. Jeremy also has an extensive collection of broadcast and never-broadcast
Gilbert and Sullivan performances going back to the fifties. Please click to visit Jeremy's site
http://www.gilbertandsullivan.freeservers.com
and follow the links.
RADIO DAYS
Excellent quick-loading site specialising in vintage BBC radio programmes:
http://www.whirligig-tv.co.uk/radio/
GREG MARSHALL'S SITE:
Interesting coverage of radio detectives: Paul Temple, Philip Odell,
Richard Hannay,
Holmes, Poirot - and more:
http://www.geocities.com/gregorym101/
STEPTOE & SON
Site run by Bob Cook devoted to one of the best comedy
duos ever: He also runs a site devoted to the classic BBC drama slot of years ago, Saturday Night Theatre.
http://www.albertand harold.co.uk/
http://www.saturday-night-theatre.co.uk/index.html
VINTAGE BROADCASTING
Covers all aspects of broadcasting history;links to collectors of programmes and equipment; excellent noticeboard. Run by David and Lyn Laine at
http://www.vintagebroadcasting.org.uk
HISTORY OF RADIO BROADCASTING
Listen to old programmes on-line with Richard Mann at
http://www.oldtimeradioprograms.com
AMERICAN OLD TIME RADIO SITE
Articles on all aspects of collecting OTR programmes, and links to collectors. Run by Lou Genko at
http://www.old-time.com
COLLECTORS CLASSIC RADIOS
A site run by Merrill Mabbs; articles on antique radios and links to other collectors; you can even buy some of the radios on show.
http://classicradiogallery.com
WINE AND BEER MAKING
Interesting site with a different slant to ours:http://www.winemakingandbeerbrewing.com
WINE AND BEER MAKING SUPPLIERS: EASYBREW
A shop run by enthusiast Annette Ferré in Ringwood, Hants;
she's been trading for
thirteen years. Everything you need for home winemaking and
beer brewing.
There's a website, too: Web address:
http://www.easybrew.co.uk
HOME WINE MAKER SITE
How to make wine at home: information, details, resources.
http://www.home-winemaker.com
WINE AND CULINARY
DRINKING WINE AND DINING OUT
Learn the ins and outs of
dining on the town with
http://www.dinecity.com
APPLES AND APPLE TREES
NATIONAL FRUIT COLLECTIONSBrogdale is home, at present, to the National Fruit Collections, the largest collection of fruit trees in the world. Its future looks uncertain. There are 1,800 varieties of apple, 550 of pear, 350 of plum, 220 of cherry, 320 varieties of bush fruit, and smaller collections of nuts and vines, grown in 150 acres of beautiful orchards.
http://www.brogdale.org/
DEACON's NURSERIES, IOW
The experts in supplying apple trees: Deacon's Nursery, Godshill, I.O.W. They also do peaches, apricots, vines, plums, cherries, soft fruit. Their website is at
www.deaconsnurseryfruits.co.uk .
BERNWODE PLANTS
Nursery at Ludgershall, Bucks, supplying an enormous selection of apple trees, including rediscovered ancient varieties. They also do vines, nectarines, peaches, plums, pears, etc. Website at
www.bernwodeplants.co.uk .
JOAN MORGAN'S SITE
Joan Morgan is the author of "The Book of Apples", and is involved in trying to keep the National Fruit Collection intact and at Brogdale. Her fruit site contains updates on the situation and a blog with discussion on this and other matters.
www.fruitforum.net.
REAL ENGLISH FRUIT
Real English Fruit, based in Suffolk, UK, was founded by fruit grower Dan Neuteboom in order to supply quality fruit trees, for growing in pots, patios, gardens and small orchards. His service also includes the design and planning of small or mini orchards, efficient layouts for multi fruit gardens, and a service of expert fruit tree consultancy for all problems concerning home orchards.
http://www.realenglishfruit.co.uk /
YORKSHIRE ORCHARDS:-
A new venture; 60 types of apple grown, including classic English varieties, located near York. Trees will begin producing fruit in commercial quantities in 2006 for local farmers' markets.
http://www.yorkshireorchards.co.uk
APPLES in Botley, Hampshire: FRUITWISE
An interesting apple and cider site run by Stephen
and Julia Hayes: they are apple growers in Botley with about 1000
trees - all decent varieties. Web address is:
http://www.botley.com/fruitwise/fruitwise.html
and their new website, updated each week, is at
http://www.fruitwise.net /
-contains advice about what varieties to plant, which to
avoid, pruning of trees, etc.
LOCAL APPLE VARIETIES
Ron Cowell's website covers, amongst other things, English apples
organized by county. It's at an early stage, but well worth
following. He's got some good apple pictures, including a few
taken in our orchard. His site can be found at:
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/d.cowell1/essexapplesindex.html
APPLE FLAVOURS AND ORIGINS
Richard Borrie's site is dedicated to describing the
origins of different apple varieties and the flavours
of the various apples. Unusual, interesting site.
Web address: http://www.orangepippin.com /
RECKLESS ORCHARD
Winifred and Les Baker run a small landscape architecture
practice (named after a traditional orchard) promoting, where suitable,
the planting of orchards in development schemes. They have worked with the
Brogdale Trust in the past. Their web address is
http://www.recklessorchard.com/
CIDER MAKING
Mark Shirley is an organic cidermaking enthusiast; he runs Rockingham Forest
Cider, on the Northamptonshire / Leicestershire border.
He's based in Middleton, and his web address is
http://rockinghamforestcider.moonfruit.com/
TULLENS FRUIT FARM
Tullens sell traditional English apples including Cox, Worcester Permaine and Bramley; Laxton's Superb and Blenheim Orange will be available soon. The farm is based in Pulborough, West Sussex. They also sell apple juice (5 types) and organic lamb from their Dorset Downs sheep - all from their farm shop. Web address:
http://www.tullens.co.uk/
EDEN POINT NURSERIES
A family-run company that specialises in supplying high quality apple trees, organically grown, specialising in hardy, disease-resistant eating/cooking apples for the home garden and a range of cider apple trees for the home or commercial orchard. 20 Giller Dv, Preston, Lancs.
http://www.edenpointnurseries.co.uk
PLANTING, GROWING, STORING and EATING FRUIT
Informative site for fruit enthusiasts:
http://www.fruitexpert.co.uk/
VINES
AMIGONI FAMILY VINEYARDSVineyard growing premium grape varieties and selling vine protection products. Located in Centerview, Missouri. Bird netting, frost protection fabric, and a well-written website with high information content on vines.
http://www.amigoni.com/
GARDENING
"GROW IT" MAGAZINE
New monthly national gardening mag. aimed at fruit and veg growing enthusiasts.
Nigel (Diversity website owner) has written for this mag.; see his article on grafting apples in
issue 2, 6 Apr. 07). Website:
http://www.growitmag.com
GARDENERS' QUESTION TIME: DAPHNE LEDWARD
Author, broadcaster, and on the
GQT panel as the first female gardening expert....her website
is at:
http://www.daphneledward.com/
MY GARDEN:
An online resource for lovers of gardening:
http://www.mygarden.net.au/
HOME IMPROVEMENT - GARDENING
The complete guide to home improvement, gardening and horticulture.
http://www.home-garden.co.uk/
POTATOES
Growing in pots with Ian Mcann at
http://www.gardentips.org/
VEGETABLE AND FRUIT GROWING
Interesting site on raising your own fruit and veg:
http://www.vegetableexpert.co.uk/
POTATOES
Scottish Crop Research Institute, Invergowrie: SCRI.Researches environmentalinteractions, genetics, plant pathology and health & nutrition. Hosts the Commonwealth Potato Collection.
http://www.scri.ac.uk/
British Potato Council: BPC.
A public body working on behalf of potato growers and purchasers to promote British potatoes.
http://www.potato.org.uk/
FLOWERS
FLOWER PHOTOGRAPHY
Beautiful close-ups of garden flowers by Calum Steen, IT specialist, at
http://www.steen-acres.co.uk/
FLOWER EXPERTS
Comprehensive information on flowers, flower gifts, the international
floral trade, and lots of photographs.
http://www.theflowerexpert.com
OTHER INTERESTING SITES
FRAZER IRWIN
Frazer is a horticulturalist, historian, broadcaster
and Ilkley's "most outspoken resident"; he has run
websites on conservation with a touch of Darwin along
the way - even a link to the wonderful Darwin project
(begun by Sydney Smith and Fred Burkhardt) at one stage. His new
sites will be online shortly.
Meanwhile, try Ilkley's first and best online forum, run by Warren Lloyd. It can be
found at
http://www.ilkley-more.com/
GLASS ENGRAVING AND DESIGN
High quality glass engraving: glass, crystal, commissions of all
kinds. Lesley Pyke's workshop is in Halesworth, Suffolk.
http://www.lesleypyke.com
STEPHEN SHAW
Interesting family site with sections on computing, radio comedy & autobiography:
http://www.btinternet.com/~shawweb
