Books Books Jousting with armageddon ANDY HEDGECOCK is compelled by a novel that challenges the assumption that atomic science is pure, objective and politically neutral
Book Review Tuesday 06th Dec 2022 Book Review A realism with a weird edge Weird, funny and ominous by turns, it is always original and always specific, a fine collection of stories, writes ANDY HEDGECOCK
Literature Tuesday 25th Oct 2022 Literature A Scheherazade-style framing of the entire story This is a symbolic autopsy of 21st century Britain – the Britain of our own corner of the multiverse, writes ANDY HEDGECOCK
Book Review Friday 12th Aug 2022 Book Review Is our currently experienced reality a simulation? ANDY HEDGECOCK recommends a book which is the perfect starting point for those with an interest in the possibilities of immersive technology
Photography Tuesday 17th May 2022 Photography Glimpses of social experience A Sense of Exposure (photography by Ian Currie)The Hive Coffee HouseBlackpool
Thursday 09th Dec 2021 2021 Round-up with ANDY HEDGECOCK From poets John Cooper Clarke and Mike Garry to Jackson Browne, the magnificent Paula Rego the nail-biting, futuristic Kevin Core radio drama: Welcome to MedPatch and The American Way anthology, edited by Orsola Casagrande and Ra Page, which tackles 20 examples of US belligerence
Interview Wednesday 10th Nov 2021 Interview Life is a bit weird Andy Hedgecock talks to SARAH SCHOFIELD about her fiction collection, Safely Gathered In
Book Review Tuesday 24th Aug 2021 Book Review Killing machines have no moral compass Kenneth Payne's book chillingly demonstrates how the military use of Artificial Intelligence weapons is becoming ever more dangerous, says ANDY HEDGECOCK
GRAPHIC BIOGRAPHY Tuesday 18th May 2021 GRAPHIC BIOGRAPHY Engaging tribute to master of provocative film-making ANDY HEDGECOCK recommends a new take on the great Spanish film-maker Luis Bunuel
FICTION Tuesday 11th May 2021 FICTION The New Abject Real and abstract revulsion compelling themes of dread-zone anthology
INTERVIEW Thursday 22nd Apr 2021 INTERVIEW ‘I believe in the fantastic as a crucial part of literature’ Novelist CHRISTOPHER PRIEST talks to Andy Hedgecock about his latest novel, set in an otherworldly archipelago where thousands of islands offer endless climactic, cultural and political possibilities