Nick Hennegan's Bohemian Britain

The lockdown had a devastating effect on theatre. This week, Nick Hennegan talks to two theatre workers at the Chiswick Book Festival, John Griffiths and Nick Bromley who, devastated by the lockdown, were motivated to write and publish books -  proving there’s no business like show-business! 

The Edinburgh Festival Fringe returned in 2021, but much smaller after the ravages of Covid. What do the participants think about this year? What about the future? Nick Hennegan talks to actor Tim Marriott, New York stand-up Jack Dennis, Assembly PR Hannah Bradley Croall and Assembly Marketer, Daniel Saunders in the Assembly Festival Gardens, for Resonance FM and Bohemian Britain.com --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/bohemianbritain/message

The opening of the Chiswick Book Festival local Authors party at the George 4th in Chiswick. Nick Hennegan is featured on the Writers Trail, so took his trusty mic! The opening is by Torin Douglas, director of the book festival. Hear and see more at BohemianBritain.com 

Nick Hennegan gives an instant review of the Lyric Hammersmith’s ‘Heart of Hammersmith’ community production. And mentions again that it was his idea! 😳

Two years after Nick approached the Lyric in Hammersmith with the idea, they are producing their first community play. After the success of Maverick Theatres People's Company in Birmingham, how will this shape up? Podcast Part Two will follow the show tonight! 😳 please comment if you'd like to!

The Black Lion in Hammersmith is a great pub - next to the river and just down the road from where Dylan Thomas sofa-surfed for a while. Nick Hennegan explains....

Nick Hennegan leaves Edinburgh. But why do thousands of artists keep returning year after year? www.BohemianBritain.com

Nick Hennegan gets morbid down the pub.

As you'll know if you've read Nick's Edinburgh Festival blog on www.BohemianBritain.com - it took him a while, but thanks to the Pleasance Press People, Nick Hennegan finally got to see 'Bacon' with the actor - and jeweller - Pip Utton! Known for his one-man shows, Nick and Pip talk about his life, career and what he thinks about Adolf Hitler! From Nick's blog and Resonance FM show.

The Edinburgh Festival Fringe is back, but much smaller after the ravages of Covid. What do the participants think about this year? What about the future? Nick Hennegan talks to actor Tim Marriott, New York stand-up Jack Dennis, Assembly PR Hannah Bradley Croall and Assembly Marketer, Daniel Saunders in the Assembly Festival Gardens, for Resonance FM and Bohemian Britain.com 

LIVE FROM THE EDINBURGH FESTIVAL. Nick Hennegan talks to actor Tim Marriott (TV's Brittas Empire) about his compelling, contemporary drama, Shell Shock - written with veteran Neil Watkin, his new Sherlock Holmes flavoured premier Watson and his company, Smokescreen Productions. 

Nicks still here. In the Pleasance Courtyard.

Nicks still at.the Festivals.... And it's a bit different!

A few thoughts about the half-life Edinburgh Fringe. But Nick’s doing it!

After a year away, the Edinburgh International Book Festival returns in August. Nick Hennegan talks to Festival Director Nick Barley about what we can expect. See the video at www.BohemianBritain.com 

Nick Hennegan looks at the writers and artists of Aberdovey in Wales.

Memories of 1966, a new play not written for the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and we’re Literary Pub Crawling again!

To celebrate the return of the Fitzrovia Arts Festival, Nick Hennegan went to the opening event in Warren Mews, London, W1. There he meets (and tries to drink with!) the locals... who are writers, artists, historians, gallery owners, Soho tailors and office workers, all sharing a love for a unique and hidden part of London. And this gem of an area almost throws up the truth about... Jack the Ripper! (Sort of..!)

After the launch of the Fitzrovia Arts Festival, Nick Hennegan has a reflective wander in London.

An interview with broadcaster Nick Hennegan  - on Resonance 104.4fm and the Maverick Theatre Company YouTube Channel and BohemianBritain.com - and poet and critic Cahal Dallat about an ambitious project to raise £135,000 to celebrate W.B Yeats and his upbringing in Bedford Park, Chiswick, West London - the first Artists suburb in the world! Audio version. Video to follow. For more information see www.wbyeatsbedfordpark.com Twitter @YeatsBedfordPk 

Nick Hennegan celebrates the birthday of writer Arthur Conan Doyle with a rare vintage radio episode of Doyle's most famous creation, Sherlock Holmes. 

Nick Hennegan talks to landlady Lesley Lewis and manager Hilary Heath about their efforts to save one of Soho's most unique pubs, The French House in Dean Street.  www.frenchhousesoho.com/    https://instagram.com/frenchhousesoho  https://bohemianbritain.com

Nick Hennegan talks to the Rose Playhouse in London, about its fascinating history and a new series of webinars with some of their famous supporters, including Dame Janet Suzman. www.RosePlayhouse.org.uk www.MaverickTheatreCompany.com www.BohemianBritain.com Nick Hennegan with Linda Shannon and Celia Gilbert See the video at https://youtu.be/-j7UOBbs7LU

Nick stays on message by catching Covid-19. Pubs gardens reopen in England, a possible pop-up shop in Leicester Square and Creative Producers might be heading to the Edinburgh Festival! www.CreativeProducers.Club 

Nick Hennegan talks to writer Bonnie Macbird about her new series of Sherlock Holmes novels; how she came to work in Hollywood and created and wrote the Tron series of films - and how she discovered comedian Robin Williams! www.BohemianBritain.com

Nick Hennegan talks to Annette Brook and Daljit Nagra from the Royal Society of Literature in London, about a 200 year old institution with a very modern outlook. www.rsliterature.org  https://bohemianbritain.com

Recorded live at the Wheatsheaf Pub in Soho for Nick Hennegan's Resonance 104.4FM radio show 'Literary London'. This episode features two memoirs; a moving recollection by Nick himself from his BRMB Radio days and an hilarious story from writer Zoe Antoniades' youth!

Nick Hennegan launches a new book he'd like you to write for - about pubs - and we go inside a pub to hear 2 new writers at Nick's SpeakEasy Cabaret night in Soho. Recorded before restrictions. Part Two next week. 

Nick Hennegan talks to Rosemary Richards, director of the Bloomsbury Festival about Bloomsbury, coping with COVID, filming live events and the future. Broadcast on 'Literary London' on Resonance FM, you can also see the interview on the Maverick Theatre Company's YouTube channel at https://youtu.be/PWTjtEZtfbo

Nick Hennegan returns to Literary London on Resonance 104.4fm celebrating a death and a birthday, from the Lord of the Rings and Jungle Book creators . And get in touch if you've been effected by Covid 19. Nick's making a show about it!

Well!  It's been a weird and often tragic 2020. So Nick Hennegan put out a call on social media for Literary Requests for his Resonance 104.4FM Radio show. And here is the first episode of his listeners rather eclectic choice. Featuring the theme music from A Christmas Carol by Robbie Williams, a beautiful version of a Dylan Thomas poem by Cerys Matthews and the charity single Christmas In Soho, amongst others. Contact Nick on radio @ MaverickTheatre . co . uk if you'd like a mention!

Nick Hennegan’s Friday update from a chilly but sunny West London! Smile!

For his Resonance 104.4FM radio show, Nick Hennegan talks via Zoom to American writer, Eric Chase about Edgar Allan Poe.

We’re No 2 top bohemian podcast on the web, according to Feedspot. Very nice of them. Nick is going to look up what being a bohemian entails now...! And we move into a writing room/office in Hammersmith.

News from Nicks London - a new People’s Company and the Diploma in Creative Producing.

For his Resonance 104.4FM radio show, Nick Hennegan talks to Cahal Dallet, Irish Poet and Critic, about their now on-line festival, WB Yeats and Chiswick in West London. Also now on the Literary London Pub Crawl website and YouTube channel.

Maverick News, lockdown, Blackadder producer John Lloyd and the West London People’s Theatre Company.

An unusual time indeed! How is writer, director and producer Nick coping with the lockdown in London?

An update on our amazing funding efforts for a new type of training theatre in London.

Just wondering if there’d be any interest in short updates from London England about making theatre. Whaddyathink?

Nick Hennegan is at the Royal National Theatre, talking to Guardian journalist and author Paul Tudor Owen, about writing, journalism and his new book, The Weighing of The Heart.

Local Chiswick and national names present brief pitches for their books at the Chiswick Book Festival in West London as part of Nick Hennegan's Resonance 104.4fm radio show, Literary London. Part of London Literary Pub Crawl.com 

After returning from a successful Edinburgh Festival, Nick Hennegan takes time out on his radio show, Literary London on Resonance 104.4fm, to visit the Chiswick Book Festival.  The West London festival includes the Tabard Theatre, where Nick's TWO Edinburgh 5* hits, Romeo and Juliet and P.A.L.S. are performing till the end of September 2019, before touring.  www.MaverickTheatreCompany.com

Nick Hennnegan is in a bubble.

A tired Nick gives an update on things from the world’s biggest arts festival on 9 August.

Nick's Resonance 104.4fm radio show, Literary London.  He has written and directed two plays - PALS and Romeo and Juliet which are going to be part of the Assembly Rooms offering at the Edinburgh Festival.  Rehearsals have finished and he's already missing the cast!  Hear them here!  Also features music from Robb Williams and Safone. 

Nick Hennegan updates us on his Fringe adventure. Did he cast the right actors?

Updates on the Maverick Theatre company shows!

Nick Hennegan on his Resonance 104.4FM radio show Literary London, celebrates the bi-centenary of the birth of American poet Walt Whitman. See more at www.LondonLiteraryPubCrawl.com

Join Nick Hennegan on his Resonance 104.4fm radio show 'Literary London' talking about the welsh wizard on #DylanDay. With Guy Masterson, Tom Hollander and music!  👌 www.Maverick-theatre.com

Nick Hennegan from Maverick Theatre in London talks on his Resonance 104.4FM Radio show to the head of The Folio Society, who specialise in publishing beautiful versions of classic texts. www.Maverick-Theatre.com

Nick Hennegan plays Literary requests from Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited, Romeo and Juliet, Wordsworth and Browning, with some famous actors.  And talks about the Edinburgh Festival this summer in Scotland!

Nick talks to Heather about Hoarding and Stuff...

Nick Hennegan talks with TOM WALKER, PUBLISHING DIRECTOR OF THE FOLIO SOCIETY, LONDON for his Resonance 104.4 and London Literary Pub Crawl Podcast.

Nick Hennegan marks the passing of two great British authors.

Nick Hennegan talks to Daisy Campbell - daughter of the legendary theatre-maker Ken Campbell who died 10 years ago, plays music from Soho based Clifford Slapper, marking the 3rd anniversary of the death of David Bowie... and celebrates a birth! That of JRR Tolkien. (Although he's dead now too!)

A brief look back at the Edinburgh Festival and a look forward to 2019.

Daisy Campbell continues her one-woman tribute show to her father - Ken Campbell. Recorded live at the British Library, London.

Part 2 of the hilarious tribute show for theatre maverick Ken Campbell, written and performed by his daughter, Daisy and recorded at the British Library.

Nick Hennegan celebrates the 10th anniversary of the death of theatrical maverick Ken Campbell, with his daughter, Daisy. Features parts of her hilarious one-woman show ‘Daughter of Pigspurt’ recorded live at the British Library.

Nick Hennegan goes to a downstairs bar in Soho, London, to meet writers and listen to the launch of a new spoken word anthology. (Contains some strong language.)

Nick Hennegan talks to London writers - some who are printing illegally​!

Autumn in England - and new show plans!

The End of the Edinburgh Fringe 2018.

Edinburgh Festival week Two.

Writer and director Nick Hennegan’s thoughts on a tough creative week from the worlds biggest open arts festival.

Edinburgh Festival Day 1? Nick Hennegan, the city and technical rehearsals.

Join Nick Hennegan at the biggest open arts Festival in the world and hear about the trials and tribulations of the writer, director and producer.

Nick Hennegan talks to Guy Masterson and actor Susie Amy from the cast of The Marilyn Conspiracy - a new play premiering at the Edinburgh Festival.  What REALLY happened to Marilyn Munroe?  Also news of new versions of A Christmas Carol, and Shakespeare's classics, Henry V-Lion of England and Hamlet-Horatio's Tale with​ Sir Derek Jacobi - all adapted and directed by our own Nick Hennegan!

Nick takes Hamlet to the coast.

Nick in Birmingham- the new East London!

Happy New Year and Edinburgh Festival Masterclass!

And the London Poetry Cafe #dylanday

Twitter hack and Facebook Live!

Join Nick on his Resonance FM Radio show for London Book Fair Part 5, Independent Booksellers and Irish whiskey​!

'Literary London'​ Radio show, with writer Jon-Jon, a 'Walking Dead' TV show bar and find out which 60's icon turned down The Beatles as a backing band at @LondonBookFair

Nick en route to Absolute Hell at The Royal National Theatre. #NationalTheatre

A moving London marathon.

Shakespeare’s Birthday in London

Join Nick Hennegan for his radio show 'Literary London' on Resonance 104.4fm. With The Bookseller Magazine, Brian Ferry and Annie Lennox singing Shakespeare!

Writer Nick takes his mic to the London Book Fair and gets the stories behind the stories, as it were...! #lbf18

Nick Hennegan, award winning writer and director, returns to Resonance 104.4 fm with his weekly 'Literary London' radio show. This week he celebrates Martin Luther King and hears from Irish writer, Sean O'Casey talking in 1962 about 'The Plough and The Stars', recentlyproduced with the Abbey Theatre, Dublin and the Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith.

... and the Edinburgh Festival!

Kay Mellor, BAFTA and Anchor concerns!

Two launches and a festival!

Meet Tudor, tunnels and Suffrage!

Nick Hennegan was invited to Wales Week in London. Chaired by communications expert Guto Harri, together with invited contributions from the audience, the seminar looked positively at what might need to be done to develop perceptions of Wales, in London and across the UK. The expert panel included: - Guto Harri (Chair), Managing Director of External Communications at Liberty Global, former BBC Chief Political Correspondent and previous Communications Director for Mayor of London Boris Johnson - Hannah Ellis, granddaughter of Dylan Thomas, who spearheaded the acclaimed 2014 Dylan Thomas centenary celebrations, and is Creative Director of the Dylan Thomas Estate - Ian Hargreaves CBE, Professor of Digital Economy at Cardiff University, former Editor of the Independent and the New Statesman, and Directorship at BBC News and Current Affairs; co-founder of Creative Cardiff - Fiona Stewart, award-winning festival director and events industry consultant, Managing Director and owner of Gre

On St David's Day, writer Nick talks to Trefor Ellis, the son in law of Dylan Thomas. And what's your favourite book and author in this World Book Day? With a Dylan poem read by Richard Burton. Latest episode from London's Literary Pubs

Nick attended a special event in London last week, celebrating all things Welsh. And not just the rugby! Here he asks the organiser what it's all about. Hear the full discussion on www.LondonLiteraryPubCrawl.com Podcast Page.

Wales, Edinburgh and PwC!

Fitzrovia News and a new Literary festival?

Dylan Thomas, London, 6 Nations Rugby and Philadelphia Super Bowl!

On route to Covent Garden and theatre producers!

Royal Academy, Edinburgh and George must save the world! Or I\u2019ll do some budgeting..!

Goodbye 2017. Or is it...?

Peaky end of year Blinders!

Happy Christmas Carol! (carol@mavericktheatre.co.uk)

Christmas in a London Pub! And other podcasts!

Off to the pub podcast!

Producer courses and Dickens in #Soho!

A lonely Christmas Carol.

Standing ovation & 30 Students

A lonely Christmas Carol!

Meeting new theatre producers and the Arts Theatre, London.

The day after the first www.TheChristmasCarol.co.uk night!

Wow! Last day of official rehearsals for A Christmas Carol!

Dickens and Germany!

Literary Pubs and Riverside Christmas run-throughs!

Hello Italy! And the end of Week 2 TheChristmasCarol.co.uk rehearsals in London

A Christmas Carol and Birmingham Hippodrome Rehearsals.

Moving rehearsals for www.TheChristmasCarol.co.uk

Back to rehearsals after the World Travel Market, London.

Rehearsals and World Travel Fair!

Rehearsals get heavy! 7 Nov 17.

Guy Fawkes and a new week of Christmas Carol rehearsals.

Christmas Carol Rehearsals Day 4

www.TheChristmasCarol.co.uk rehearsal Day 3!

Rehearsals Day Two www.ChristmasCarol.co.uk

Day one of rehearsals wwwTheChristmasCarol.co.uk

Screenplay finished. And \u2018Our House\u2019 in south London!

Creative Producers and Martian Skies!

Tryst at the Tabard Theatre, London

Back in London and scripts to finish!

With Patrick Kavanagh - in Birmingham!

The United Nations of London!

Back in London - and at the Donmar in the West End \u2022 London Calling - Remastered \u2022 Knives in Hens.

Back in London - and at the Donmar in the West End \u2022 London Calling - Remastered

In Wales thinking of Dylan Thomas and writer retreats. Fancy it? nick@mavericktheatre.couk

UK Storm Aileen and Roald Dahl in Wales

Peter Hall and the first U.K. storm!

Best pub that is not a pub in Aberystwyth, Wales.

A new, 140 year old pub. In Wales.

Bruce Dickinson, Iron Maiden and George Osbourne! Busy in London's Literary Pubs!

Hello World x2. From a London Pub!

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