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The Sunday Column: Jeff Brown
The search for Sunderland AFC's first black footballer led to one of the most powerful stories of the North East journalist's career. Here, he…
My life through a lens: Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen
We’ve been asking asking North East-based photographers to open up their archives and select two handfuls of images which encapsulate life as they’ve…
 • Sam Wonfor
Culture Digest 29.05.26
A weekly round up of some of the arts and culture stories from across the North East, which caught our attention
 • Sam Wonfor
Star cast announced for Richard Bean birthday celebration reading
Mother and son Denise Welch and Louis Healy, will be joined by Trevor Fox, Beth Crame and Luke Maddison at Live Theatre to mark the award-winning…
A night with The Futureheads: Sunderland band to close city's Year of Music in style
Unseen photographs, untold tour tales, live performances and two decades worth of reflections as the band look back on a career that helped put…
North East performers invited to join Annie cast
The musical will bring together performers from Tyne Theatre Productions and Tyne Youth Company for a 2027 production
Sunderland composer returns home for musical 'love letter' to the North East
The concert brings together Royal Northern Sinfonia and Ben Lunn - uniting to spotlight composers with a link to the region
All dolled up!
Massed ranks of dolls recall bicentenary year of historic railway. Tony Henderson reports
Banners exhibition to tell story of strike and struggle
Community artists explore the legacy of the Cramlington train wreckers to help mark the centenary of the General Strike. Tony Henderson reports
A collection that’s bigger on the inside
Football chief’s Doctor Who collection that was in a league of its own. Tony Henderson reports
Rare Rothschild Bird service goes (gently) under the hammer
At your service - for £3,000. Tony Henderson reports
REVIEW: The Tragicall Historie of Hamlet... in Horden
Ensemble '84 does The Bard
 • David Whetstone
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