
Miranda Sawyer
Writer at The Guardian
Writer, Interviewer and Reviewer at The Observer
Presenter, The Culture Show at BBC
Writer, host of @papercutsshow NEW BOOK! Uncommon People: Britpop & Beyond in 20 songs https://t.co/UeCQGHfPR3 Agent: [email protected]
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1 week ago |
observer.co.uk | Miranda Sawyer
Plus, a lesson in music-making, and a series of interviews with LGBTQ+ people provides a touching reminder of what Pride is actually about Missing in the Amazon, an investigative series by the Guardian, is about one of its own: journalist Dom Phillips. Dom was a lovely man, a friend of mine and many others. I met him when he was working for Mixmag during the 90s, before his switch to “proper” journalism as a Guardian correspondent based in Brazil.
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2 weeks ago |
observer.co.uk | Miranda Sawyer
The French musician, actor and punk poet Jehnny Beth has some invaluable rules for life Portrait by Suki DhandaIn a green garden hidden within the concrete of London’s Barbican centre, Jehnny Beth sits on a bench. She’s talking about making music, and other things too. “I feel like I’m told constantly that things are difficult to make,” she says.
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3 weeks ago |
observer.co.uk | Miranda Sawyer
Portrait by Jane BownIn the summer of 2000, upstairs at the Royal Court, I saw a play, and even now, 25 years later, I can remember it. There were enormous mirrors that revealed the action and reflected the audience. Three actors that somehow seemed to be a single consciousness. The sense of a sleepless night, a moment of bleak clarity; a new day coming, and with it, an inevitable but devastating end. The play was 4.48 Psychosis, and I was very moved by it; wrung out, actually, when it was done.
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3 weeks ago |
observer.co.uk | Miranda Sawyer
A British trafficker tells all in a new podcast. Plus, a TV “swearing consultant”, South African rugby and an indie variety show We hear a lot about people smuggling on the news, usually framed as “the small boat crisis” and accompanied by political grandstanding on how the crisis must and will be stopped.
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1 month ago |
observer.co.uk | Miranda Sawyer
Pulp are back and bigger than ever. Jarvis Cocker and fellow members Candida Doyle, Nick Banks and Mark Webber talk about their accidental new album, growing up while refusing to grow old … and the sex pond at the back of Banks’s garden Portraits by Suki DhandaAn intimate gig for Radio 2 in the BBC’s live theatre. Pulp – singer Jarvis Cocker, keyboard player Candida Doyle, drummer Nick Banks, guitarist Mark Webber – are dotted about a small stage.
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