Editor's View from the Desk #2: The Ballad of Reading Gaol

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Katrina Lloyd
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Hello again, readers, and welcome to the blog, which today comes from my home in Caversham, Reading. The big news in Reading at the moment (apart from the coronavirus) is a campaign to save Reading Gaol, where Oscar Wilde was once a prisoner...

Campaigners, including Stephen Fry, want it to become an arts hub rather than let property developers get their hands on it to build luxury flats. Of course, I am for the arts hub as I think that is what Oscar would have wanted. Like Oscar, it looks like I will be stuck in Reading for many weeks to come as things have changed pretty rapidly since yesterday's blog and we are all now working from home for the foreseeable future. Not a great start as the phone connections are down at home today. However, it has given me the chance to relive one of my favourite ever clips, which is doing ...

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