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...The audio version is an ensemble piece, read by Frank Blake, Moe Dunford and Seana Kerslake, who take the parts of Kala’s friends, reunited in their home town over a summer....
...As we head towards the seasonal break, I’ve been to several carol services and concerts, including the FT’s own event at St Bride’s, the journalists’ church on Fleet Street....
...There’s Alice, who cherishes church and cooking for her loved ones; Adel, whose son Warren is trying to move on from a spell in prison, and her sisters Carol and Melissa....
...Peter Blake had commissioned Carol’s Alice in Wonderland tea service, and Kate’s a really big star in the collector’s world now, but I think I was probably one of her very earliest collectors....
...What else we’re reading Lunch with the FT: Carol Dweck Psychologist and Stanford professor Carol Dweck may not be a household name, but her research into what she came to call “growth mindset” and “fixed...
...Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon rsc.org.uk A Christmas Carol The Old Vic’s lovely, carol-wreathed staging of Dickens’s Christmas classic returns, this time with Paterson Joseph as the old...
...Chocolate has long been as essential to Christmas as carols and candlelight. Over the past couple of decades, as with other festive foods, the standard has risen beyond recognition....
...But when Tim Scott, the Republican party’s only black senator, is pulled over seven times in one year “for nothing more than driving a new car in the wrong neighbourhood” — and when James Blake, a Harvard-educated...
...It signalled his life-long distaste for the austerely disciplined, later dominant “Movement” (headed by the “spermicidal” Philip Larkin) and his affiliation with the lustier tradition of Blake, Yeats and...
...And when the Choir of King’s College, Cambridge, was looking for a new carol for last month’s Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols, they turned to Musgrave....
...He enjoyed the movement’s playful nature, he says, pointing to an early print, “Sergeant Peppers Lonely Hearts Bastards”, which replaced the randomly chosen figures in Peter Blake’s original artwork with...
...Blake Irving, Yahoo’s most senior product development executive, resigned from the struggling US internet company on Friday....
...New work has been commissioned in all the art forms and the prestigious list of contributors includes two Turner Prize winners, composer Mark-Anthony Turnage and poet laureate Carol Ann Duffy....
...Especially if we wrote using pen names made from breakfast puns like Blake Pudding, Tina Beans and Malcolm Eggs....
...Some headway has already been made under new product development boss Blake Irving, but it needs to move much more quickly....
...Carol Mavor offers “An Alicious Annotated Fairy Tale”, a story with footnotes centred on a photograph of “Nancy” taken by the US photographer Emmet Gowin in Danville, Virginia, in 1969....
...Yahoo chief executive Carol Bartz said in January that revenue per search was weaker than the company had hoped....
...Sam Wasson’s first book, A Splurch in the Kisser, was inexplicably devoted to the thin topic of the films of Blake Edwards....
...The deans there join a list of extremely experienced women who have been running the show for years – Alison Davis-Blake at Minnesota, Carol Stephenson at Ivey, Linda Livingstone at Pepperdine, Judy Olian...
...Tim Morse, from Silicon Valley semiconductor company Altera, will take over as Carol Bartz continues to shape her management team folowing her appointment as CEO in January....
...Carol Bartz, chief executive, who took charge of the company in January, said an economy-driven decline in advertising spending had depressed results in the first quarter more than some analysts had expected...
...Jan Blake’s designs and costumes, variations in grey, fit the work well....
...Yahoo‘s Carol Bartz finally came clean on her management shake-up....
...The much-anticipated news came as Yahoo also revealed Blake Jorgensen, its chief financial officer, would be the latest member of top management to leave....
...“Carol has made decisions and that boosts morale.”...
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