Author Percival Everett, director Pravesh Kumar on Little English
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W.B. Yates's Bedford Park
This year is the centenary of W.B. Yates winning the Nobel Prize for Literature. His important links to Bedford Park, where he spent his formative years, have been under-recognised and under-appreciated. Not any more! Last year we unveiled a dazzling sculpture by Conrad Shawcross in Rortleit that was unveiled by Rowan Williams. Many of Yates’s poems were beautifully read by Chinead Cheusek, Jeremy Irons, Ruth Nega, and Kieran Heinz. We are very much part of its second stage, as we launch the W.b. Yates smartphone trail. You click on Discover Yates's Bedford Park, and
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