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Do you dare to dream?
The new children’s laureate believes that staring into space can be very rewarding
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Muddy Book Club: June’s best reads
Feel the need, the need to read? You’re in luck – walk this way for the Muddy Book Club, featuring June’s best literary offerings.
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Are we all storytellers?
I talk to Joanna Bowen, theatre director and founder of the Fireside Festival, about why she’s bringing The Fabularium to a farm in Baldock.
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TV DYNAMITE
All the latest news on the best telly to watch this month, as chosen by Muddy’s square-eyed Kerry Potter. Go on, budge up and pass the remote.
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The Muddy Book Club: May’s best reads
Want to get lost in a good book? Here’s our pick of the best new releases for the merry month of May.
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The Muddy Book Club, April picks
Overwhelmed by choice? We make it easier for you with our pick of the top reads for April.
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The most independent booksellers in Herts
To celebrate World Book Day, rather than dress up as Hermione, I talk to the two main independent bookshop owners in Herts. Sheryl Shurville is the owner of Chorleywood Bookshop and also the Gerrards Cross Bookshop in Bucks. She has been a bookseller for 16 years. Paul Wallace is the owner of David’s Bookshop in Letchworth and has been selling […]
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The Oscars: 5 unmissable moments
Hot off the press from Muddy HQ: As you might just have noticed, last night was the 89th Academy Awards at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood. The movie industry’s finest got glammed up, came, saw and conquered… or, at least, thought they’d conquered but then realised someone had a made a humdinger of a boo-boo […]
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New! Muddy Book Club: February’s Best Reads
Need a new book to get stuck into? Muddy, as ever, is here to help. Taking being a bookworm to a whole new level is Muddy’s Kerry Potter. She gets 300 – yes, THREE HUNDRED shiny new tomes delivered to her house every month as she’s also books editor at a glossy mag (won’t somebody think of […]
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Half term action, and arty pursuits
Learn about the Krays in the East End, dodo doodles, feed pigs on a farm, and surf the Hemel waves. Collapse in a heap. Half term done.
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