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Free Thinking : The city

From Liverpool, playwright Esther Wilson

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1. City on the Edge鈥� of the Future.

   • Esther Wilson
   • 18 Aug 06, 03:42 PM

   This is the first of my guest 'blogger'. Jonathan Raisin is a composer/musician/writer. He's presently working on a number of projects in development and has very kindly agreed to stick his neck out in the name of free thinking.
   I hope he gets your juices flowing.
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   Where to begin? What is worth talking about at a time when everything can be spoken of and nothing in the world remains unread?

   Well, here in Liverpool there is an interesting thing going on just now. Interesting as in the old and over used Chinese curse; 鈥渕ay you live in interesting times鈥�. (But if ever there was a time for an unreliable clich茅 then now is that time. Here鈥檚 another one. 鈥淭o joke about the present is a sign that we take seriously the past鈥�. You like it? Great. I made it up!)

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1. What does progress mean?

   • Esther Wilson
   • 28 Jul 06, 03:37 PM

   
   As a playwright I鈥檓 smack bang in the middle of research for a piece called The Quiet Little Englishman. Basically it鈥檚 about a bloke called who was born in St Helens in 1901, graduated from Liverpool University with a degree in Engineering then in 1923 sailed off to America to change the face of cinematic history. Didn鈥檛 you know? No. Neither did I. Which is one of the things that interested me about the story. (He was the world鈥檚 first sound mixer but sound men didn鈥檛 rate a mention until years later)

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