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Get involved: send your pictures, video, news and views by texting BWT to 80360 or you can email us A The Felsted Olympiad, which will run from now until July, will present performances from a mix of acts including world-renowned musicians and groups.

At one point in this ragbag of a book, the author steps forward in his own person - or something remarkably like it - to wonder whether the Nobel committee might see its way clear to awarding him the prize that would put him beyond reach of his detractors.

A CHILD'S imagination is a powerful tool, which is shown none more so than in the classic adventure novel by Arthur Ransome, Swallows and Amazons.

W HEN Swallows And Amazons opens at the Theatre Royal next week, it'll be the music of Neil Hannon that will be accompanying the action of Arthur Ransome's fantastical tale of youthful adventure and discovery.

With two albums and a prestigious Ivor Novello Award for songwriting under his belt, Nick's slowly discovering he has some heavyweight admirers, leading to house parties at Brian Eno's, boozy drinking sessions with Divine Comedy's Neil Hannon, career advice from Richard Thompson, and performing with Ray Davies.

While Virgil speaks to Geryon, Dante talks to another group of souls nearby squatting on the sand, the Usurers, or moneylenders.

RH Gallery in New York will be the stage for Chinese artist Yi Zhou's first metropolitan opening in the United States.

When Arthur Ransome was writing his quintessentially British adventure novel Swallows And Amazons in 1929, however, it seemed perfectly natural.

You think twice about even letting kids walk the dog round the block these days which is a shame.