Alan Franks
Writer and musician
Writer and musician
Alan is playing and reading poetry at Ulverston's Word Market 'Poem and a Pint' on Saturday 13 Feb in the Lakes.
Alan and Patty are playing at St Neot's Folk Club on Tuesday 16 Feb, their first visit there for some time and not to be missed.
On Thursday 4 March, Alan is playing music, reading poetry and launching his latest book at Tide Tables cafe under the bridge in Richmond.
On Thursday 4 March, Alan is playing music and reading poetry the Tricycle Theatre in Kilburnwith author and screenwriter Shane Connaughton
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February 2010
As Lucy Prebble's Enron transfers to the West End, read Alan's interviewwith director Rupert Goold.
Saturday 12 September: Exclusive on Ted Hughes.
Alan breaks a great story right back from postwar London,when art school graduate Jim Downer gave illustrations for a children’s book to a friend he lived with, Ted Hughes, who promised to 'take a look'. The project seemed to die, the friends moved on. Now, more than 50 years later, the book – complete with Hughes’s verse – is finally to be published. Alan talked to Downer about this lost Hughes work, and the remarkable bohemian world that was their 18 Rugby Street home The full story is here.
Read Alan's interview with Alison Balsom.
Read Alan's interview with Andy Murray, online here for the first time.
Monday 20 April: Alan interviews Professor Brian Cox 'at the outer edge of plausibility.'
Monday 23 March: Read John the Present , the first of four new poems in Alan's Alan's poetry section.
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Sunday 22 March: Read Alan's interview with Welsh 'sex bomb' Tom Jones. Saturday 7 March.
As Lucy Prebble's Enron transfers to the West End, read Alan's interviewwith director Rupert Goold.
Saturday 12 September: Exclusive on Ted Hughes.
Alan breaks a great story right back from postwar London,when art school graduate Jim Downer gave illustrations for a children’s book to a friend he lived with, Ted Hughes, who promised to 'take a look'. The project seemed to die, the friends moved on. Now, more than 50 years later, the book – complete with Hughes’s verse – is finally to be published. Alan talked to Downer about this lost Hughes work, and the remarkable bohemian world that was their 18 Rugby Street home The full story is here.
Read Alan's interview with Alison Balsom.
Read Alan's interview with Andy Murray, online here for the first time.
Monday 20 April: Alan interviews Professor Brian Cox 'at the outer edge of plausibility.'
Monday 23 March: Read John the Present , the first of four new poems in Alan's Alan's poetry section.
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Sunday 22 March: Read Alan's interview with Welsh 'sex bomb' Tom Jones. Saturday 7 March.
Check out this insightful analysis of The English Village.
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Read Alan Franks on the on the art of creative writing in the new section of his website that will be devoted to his many plays and other fiction.
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Saturday 7 February
Read Alan's interview with the 'French Sinatra'
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Below is Alan and Patty's song about the last crash on Wall Street, strangely pertinent to today's financial crisis: 'The Day it Started Raining Millionaires on Wall Street.'
Read more here about Alan's new book.
Saxophonist Tim Whitehead and soprano Kathleen Willison recently sang new jazz songs written by Tim and Alan at Bedales Arts. Tim is currently artist in residence at Tate Britain., a project supported by the Leverhulme Trust. Alan will be contributing some of the 'words' to the final art/performance show, about musical 'colour'.
This is one of the songs they sang, with lyrics by Alan:
Listen to the others here.
The website of Alan Franks is built and maintained by Ruthie Gledhill.