Jane Graham
Books Editor and Journalist at The Big Issue
Writer/ Broadcaster /Socialist /Dylanologist /Dog Lover. V slow rapper. Evangelist for scepticism. Books Ed @bigissue. Books: Letter to my Younger Self vols 1&2
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1 week ago |
bigissue.com | Jane Graham
Music The Kanneh-Mason family are an extraordinary musical success story, but racism has plagued them every step of the way Kadiatu Kanneh-Mason lectured in English at the University of Birmingham before giving up her career to have children. All seven of her children – Isata, Braimah, Sheku, Konya, Jeneba, Aminata and Mariatu – are classically trained musicians. In 2016, cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason was named BBC Young Musician of the Year, the first Black musician to win the award.
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2 weeks ago |
bigissue.com | Jane Graham
Music Growing up in a musical family, the singer knew the direction her life would take. She didn’t know she’d still be doing it at 64 Kim Wilde was born in November 1960 in Chiswick, Middlesex. Her father was the British rock ‘n’ roll star Marty Wilde and her mother Joyce had been a member of vocal group The Vernons Girls. Her first taste of the music business came as a back-up singer to her brother Ricky on his 1972 single “I Am an Astronaut”.
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3 weeks ago |
bigissue.com | Jane Graham
Culture The former breakfast TV presenter and podcast host wishes he’d gone to university and learned the piano. But his biggest regret is from that one day when all his stars aligned Johnny Vaughan was born in Barnet, North London, in July 1966. His big break came in 1993, when he started presenting Moviewatch on Channel 4. In 1997 he took over as host of The Big Breakfast, presenting alongside Denise van Outen for a four-year stint which made him one of British TV’s most well-known faces.
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1 month ago |
bigissue.com | Jane Graham
TV Sue Cleaver remembers not liking herself at 16, and taking the long route to finding her passion Sue Cleaver was born in Barnet, Hertfordshire in 1963. She studied at the Manchester Metropolitan School of Theatre, then landed roles in A Touch of Frost, drama series Band of Gold and the film Girls’ Night alongside Julie Walters and Brenda Blethyn.
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1 month ago |
bigissue.com | Jane Graham
Books Big Issue books editor Jane Graham celebrates the centenary of F Scott Fitzgerald’s Great American Novel, first published in April 1925 The Great Gatsby was not a first-time hit. When it was published by Scribner’s in 1925, it was generally reviewed positively but often with the caveat that it wasn’t as successful a portrait of the jazz age as F Scott Fitzgerald’s previous two novels – This Side of Paradise in 1920 and The Beautiful and Damned in 1922. Sales were underwhelming.
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