Hanna Weibye
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Hanna trained as a historian at the University of Cambridge and wrote a PhD thesis on Friedrich Ludwig Jahn, the inventor of "German gymnastics". As well as regularly reviewing dance in London, she has produced, choreographed for and danced in ballet and contemporary shows in Cambridge.
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Music Reissues Weekly: Chelsea - The Step-Forward Years
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The Smyrna Catastrophe of 1922, in which tens of thousands of Greeks and Armenians were slaughtered by Turkish soldiers, is a topical subject...
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Mathias Énard: The Annual Banquet of the Gravediggers'...
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Monica review - sombre American drama
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Album: Cher - Christmas
I honestly never thought I'd add a Cher song to my painstakingly curated ...