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Subject: Sheila Hancock Radio 4


Author:
Leila
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Date Posted: Monday, September 22, 12:49:12pm
Hiya,

Just had a phone call from my stepdad Steve to tell me that Sheila Hancock is on Woman's Hour tomorrow, on Radio 4 Sorry its so late but I didn't know. woman's hour is on BBC Radio 4 at 10am.

Love Leila x
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Subject: A Qestion about photos on website...


Author:
Sue Bowles
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Date Posted: Thursday, September 18, 08:18:50am
First of all the photos on the website are amazing, but i was wondering if its allowed to copy them and have them on my own pc.

I'm sure that it must be against the law to copy them and use someone elses photos like Janet's on another website/forum etc without permission from her, i just wanted to know what all of you do before i go ahead and save any.

I mean i'd never use them for anything else, as i don't believe in pinching someone elses stuff, a lot of that was done on one of the craft forum's that Janet and i belonged too, (right Janet), and it was very annoying especially for Janet as they were nicking her designs, her drawings and using them on cards as if their own work.

But i've seen some really rare photos on the website and would hate it if anyone stole those and used them as their own work on a site without her permission, i'll send her an email as i think she's gone again and ask her if i can save some of them, don't like doing these things without asking.

Drat, must go the boss is hovering around, better look like i'm working instead of on here, this place is terrible at side-tracking a person, Janet you have a lot to answer for, ha-ha!!
Love Sue
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Subject: The wait is over....


Author:
Leila
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Date Posted: Thursday, September 18, 06:25:57am
I got up nice and early this morning and heading into Nottingham to get a copy of Just Me. Waterstones hadn't been open long when I arrived to pick up my copy, easly done as they have put it in the new book section, when I went to pay it was so new the scan didn't work and me and the guy had to work out the price, as it was half price. Never laughed so much in a book shop, and all because i was buying Just Me, right I am off to spend the day reading the book, I've already looked, and laughed at the photos, not its time to get down to reading it. I really can't wait!

Love Leila x
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Subject: SWEENEY Fan Meet


Author:
Theresa H
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Date Posted: Wednesday, September 17, 04:58:11am
Hello Folks

Just made a rare visit to the unofficial Sweeney website. There is to be a Sweeney Fan Meet on 12TH OCTOBER. No details of where yet, but I think is usually in U.K./London somewhere – and in a pub.

If you happen to be in U.K. for Sheila’s book signing for instance and are interested in the fan meet – see below link to register your interest.
http://www.thetvlounge.co.uk/sweeney/viewtopic.php?t=3319&start=0

I’d go if I was on that side of the world then – but sadly ‘tis not to be! Second link is to Sweeney home page if you want to join forum to respond to Fan Meet email. You’ll probably also see a reference to another new Sweeney site with lots of great pictures.

http://www.thetvlounge.co.uk/sweeney/index.php?sid=03b5d85e169d809724f38dce2177ed9b

Cheers
Theresa H
Subject: Happy Birthday........Kay!!


Author:
Janet
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Date Posted: Tuesday, September 16, 06:15:22am
Just want to wish Kay a very happy birthday, sadly we aren't all together like last year but i hope you still have a great day.
Lots of Love
Janet.
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Subject: Sheila Hancock


Author:
Leila
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Date Posted: Tuesday, September 16, 12:35:06pm
I've just been reading through next weeks radio times and Sheila will be appearing on The Paul O'Grady Show on Channel 4 at 5pm on Thursday 25th September.

Love Leila
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Subject: thanks leila!


Author:
sandra (happy)
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Date Posted: Saturday, September 13, 09:00:07am
hi all,

thanks leila for your posts!
can't wait to get the book. I do like her style of writing,
very honest.
lucky me: in October my husband has a congress in london, which takes 5 days: and guess what: I can go too!
needless to say that I'm very excited about it. we've got someone to look after the kids: so, london here we come!
unfortunately it's not on one of the dates of sheila's book tour. but, with any luck I can buy her book there.
I just hope my health will be better by that time: I'm at home suffering from a hernia. not so good.

well, leila, hope you'll keep on putting all this great information on here.
do hope you all are doing fine!

love,
sandra
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Subject: daily mail


Author:
mfr
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Date Posted: Saturday, September 06, 07:53:30am
sheila's new book is being serialised in the daily mail
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Subject: Letter from Everyclick.com


Author:
Janet
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Date Posted: Thursday, September 04, 11:07:38am
Below is the letter i got from everyclick.com about the John Thaw Foundation, hope it helps!
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Subject: John Thaw Foundation


Author:
Janet.
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Date Posted: Thursday, August 21, 10:12:05pm
Hi everyone
As you know i have started using a great new search engine that raises money for charity, every time you search the web.

And my charity is THE JOHN THAW FOUNDATION, well i'm sure you've noticed that the amount has gone down an awful lot just lately, and i'm assuming that it's now been paid to the Foundation.

In which case we need to start raising money again, so come on everyone, it doesn't cost you a penny.

Join me at: http://www.everyclick.com/janetsteele

Come on, you know you want too, you know i can't do it all on my own, though i'd give it a go, ha-ha!!
Janet
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Subject: Crime Thriller Award Season - ITV3


Author:
Janet
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Date Posted: Thursday, August 28, 12:04:38pm
ITV3 over seven weeks are celebrating the genre of six selected authors, and in October one of them will walk away with ITV3 Writer's Award for Classic TV drama, and the viewers get to vote.

So please click on the following link to vote for Colin Dexter…

http://www.itv.com/Drama/copsandcrime/ITV3CrimeThrillerSeason/Vote08ColinDexter/default.html

ITV3 as part of Profiling Colin Dexter week…
Profiling Colin Dexter (new)
9pm – Monday 1st September 08

There’s Something About…Morse! (Repeat)
11.10pm – Tuesday 2nd September 08

Love Janet.
http://endeavour-johnthaw.blogspot.com/
Subject: The two of us


Author:
John Parkes (Proper story)
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Date Posted: Wednesday, August 27, 08:30:11pm
Just read "The two of us" by Sheila Hancock. Is ISBN 0 7475 7709 9 (plus) 9780747577096 (plus - if the publisher Bloomsbury - is to believed - 10 9 8.
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Subject: My Blog


Author:
Janet
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Date Posted: Wednesday, August 27, 11:11:54am
I just want to say a huge thank you to everyone who is visiting me on my blog http://endeavour-johnthaw.blogspot.com/ not being able to get out and about means i'm stuck in the house, and i tend to get very lonely so seeing folk there from all over the world really makes my day.

SO THANK YOU

I will still use this forum, of which there is a link on my blog and send stuff to Joe for the site, again a link on my blog.

But if you don't see much of me it's because i'm in rather a lot of pain, and i'm finding it hard just posting my blog on John every day without going anywhere else, but i'll still be about, you don't get rid of me that easy, ha-ha!!
Love Janet.

PS: Can someone turn the tap off in Manchester i think we've had enough rain!!!
Subject: Sheila's monologue... my review!


Author:
Janet
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Date Posted: Tuesday, August 26, 12:10:54pm
Sheila’s performance last night in the monologue drama was amazing as she sketched a life before a video camera for her husband of a life well-lived and nearing its inevitable end. Sitting in a wheelchair, in a bedroom that was rather bare, she told it all as she saw it.

Sheila played a woman who was dying of an unnamed illness who had flown to Switzerland to end her own life. Her elucidation of slurred speech, with occasional clarity, was spellbindingly convincing as that of a dying woman, who resented her condition “I may be losing control of my body, but I’m dammed if I’m going to lose control of my life”, well said.

At the same time for me it was very sad, as I couldn’t help but think of John and my own mum, and even though I found it had to watch, I’m really pleased that I did, for it was a wonderful half-hour performance from a wonderful actress.
Love Janet.
http://endeavour-johnthaw.blogspot.com/
Subject: The Last Word Monologues


Author:
Leila
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Date Posted: Tuesday, August 26, 10:27:30am
Hi All

Sheila's episode of The Last Word Monologues is on bbc iplayer at the moment, the shows are usually there for seven days after transmission!

www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer
Subject: Sheila on BBC One


Author:
Leila
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Date Posted: Wednesday, August 20, 11:01:09am
The star of both Up in Town and the original Sensitive Skin was Joanna Lumley, whose eager praise of Blick’s directing talents persuaded her friend Sheila Hancock to take on Before I Call You In. As with Lumley’s parts, Blick has tailored each of the roles in The Last Word to the particular stars he’s cast. Hoskins is known for playing hit men, so he plays one here. Ifans has a public image of being a playboy, so Blick went for a playboy’s polar opposite (a gay sheep farmer) for his part. And Hancock, through the widespread coverage of the death of her husband John Thaw from cancer in 2002 has already, as Blick puts it, a “relationship with personal tragedy that the public is very aware of”. She is also involved in the hospice movement.

It is perhaps not surprising then that Hancock says she found the three days she spent filming Before I Call You In “gutting”. “At the end I did break down in floods of tears, which was a thing I’ve never done before in my life,” she says. “Very unprofessional.”

Blick’s working method when filming his monologues is to leave the actor alone with a fixed camera to exacerbate the intensity of their experience. The result is that Blick’s films gain a documentary feel that contrasts sharply, he believes, with the work of that master of the monologue, Alan Bennett. Bennett’s famous Talking Heads films of the Eighties and Nineties were contrived, theatrical works where characters gradually unveiled a complete story. The Last Word offer only elusive fragments of lives – Hancock comments on their “strange” non-sequitur sentences.

Blick’s films are thus more demanding of their audience than Bennett’s – but also more realistic. Interestingly Blick says he’d rather they were compared with the BBC’s Nineties Video Nation series of films, where real people spoke to camera, than to Talking Heads.

What Bennett and Blick do have in common is that they create works of art. And while not everyone will take to this bleak form of television, there’s no doubting the integrity of Blick’s courageous attempt to force us to think about humanity in extremis. “My monologues are like haiku,” he says, with some accuracy. “They have the focus of a poem but the emotional ambition of an epic.”
20.08.08

just thought i would let everyone know my mum has set it on the sky box as we will be in Wiltshire when it's on. It sounds like its going to be an emotional ride!
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Subject: Sheila's Book Tour - Update!!


Author:
Janet
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Date Posted: Sunday, August 17, 06:14:25pm
Venue: Portsmouth University (An Evening with Sheila Hancock)
Date: 27th September 2008
Time: 6pm
Price: Free event, entry on Tickets only by calling the box office, not available online
Address: New Theatre Royal, 20-24 Guildhall Walk, PO1 2DD
Box Office: 023 9264 9000
Email: boxoffice@newtheatreroyal.com
Website: http://www.newtheatreroyal.com/newseason/pages/whatson/september/an-evening-with-sheila-hancock/

Venue: Topping & Co. Bookshop Bath
Date: 30th September 2008
Time: 7 for 7.30pm
Price: Tickets £8 with £8 off the book
Address: The Guildhall, High Street, Bath BA1 5AW
Box Office: 01225 428111
Website: http://de.visitbath.co.uk/site/veranstaltungen/wichtige-veranstaltungen-in-bath-2008/sheila-hancock-talk-and-book-signing-p597963

Venue: Topping & Co. Bookshop, Ely
Date: 1st October 2008
Time: 7 for 7.30pm
Price: £8 per ticket with £8 off the book
Address: Ely Cathedral, Chapter House, The College, Ely, Cambridge CB7 4DL
Box Office: 01353 645005
Website: http://www.toppingbooks.co.uk/elyevents.aspx

Venue: Chorleywood Bookshop Event
Date: 3rd October 2008
Time: 7.30pm
Address: 4 New Parade, Chorleywood, Hertfordshire, WD3 5NJ, UK
Box Office: 01923 283566
Email: chorleywoodbookshop@btinternet.com
Website: http://www.chorleywoodbookshop.co.uk

Venue: Hertford & Hoddesdon Bookshop Theatre Event (Meet the Author Sheila Hancock)
Date: 6th October 2008
Time: 7.30pm
Price: £10, Con £8
Address: Castle Hall Theatre, The Wash, Hertford SG14 1PS
Box Office: 01992 531500
Email: castle.hall@eastherts.gov.uk
Website: http://www.eastherts.gov.uk/CastleHall/Events/Genre/LiveTheatre/index.htm


Venue: Ilkley Literature Festival
Date: 7th October 2008
Time: 7.30pm
Address: Kings Hall, Station Road, Ilkley LS29 8HE
Box Office: 01943 816 714
Website: http://www.ilkleyliteraturefestival.org.uk/user/index.php

Venue: Sheffield off The Shelf Literature Event (An evening with Sheila Hancock in conversation with Trisha Cooper)
Date: 8th October 2008
Time: 7 for 7.30pm
Price: £9 (£7 Con) (The cost of the ticket includes tea and coffee on arrival followed by wine and nibbles)
Address: The Penine Theatre, Sheffield Hallam University, City Campus, Howard Street, Sheffield
Box Office: 0114 249 6000
Website: http://www.sheffield.gov.uk/libraries/reading-room/off-the-shelf-festival-2008


Venue: Art on the Hill Festival
Date: 10th October 2008
Time: 12.00pm
Address: Royal Hospital for Neuro-disability, West Hill, Putney
Box Office: 020 8780 4513
Email: artonthehill@rhn.org.uk
Website: http://www.rhn.org.uk/doc.asp?catid=19&docid=2044

Venue: Cheltenham Literary Festival
Date: 12th October 2008
Time: 11.30am till 12.45pm
Price: £9
Address: The Centaur, Cheltenham Racecourse
Box Office: 01242 227979
Website: http://cheltenhamfestivals.com/whats_on/literature_festival.html

Venue: Chichester Festivities Autumn Programme
Date: 14th October 2008
Time: 7pm
Address: The Venue, Spur Road, Quarry Lane, Chichester
Box Office: 01243 785718
Website: www.chifest.org.uk

Venue: National Theatre Platform Performance (A Platform – Sheila Hancock)
Date: 15th October 2008
Time: 6pm
Price: £3.50Address: Lyttleton Theatre, The South Bank, London, SE1 9PX
Website: http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/38102/platforms/sheila-hancock.html

Venue: Belfast Festival
Date: 17th October 2008
Time: 6.30pm
Address: Elmwood Hall
Website: www.belfastfestival.com

Venue: Good Housekeeping Literary Day
Date: 31st October 2008
Time: 9.30pm
Address: Freemasons Hall, Covent Garden

Will update this as and when new information is found...
Love Janet.

http://endeavour-johnthaw.blogspot.com/
Subject: Happy Birthday........Leila!!!


Author:
Janet
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Date Posted: Thursday, August 14, 07:12:47am
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