Nick Hennegan's Bohemian Britain

After returning from a successful run at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Nick Hennegan is in Chiswick, West London, for the Book Festival's Local Writers evening at the George lV Pub on the High Road. Hear a selection of local writers with just TWO minutes to present their books... before being noisily penalised!

Part 2 next week.

The Edinburgh Fringe tales of a poor bohemian. With The Birth of Frankenstein!

Well, Chiswick actually... but...

Before its run at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Nick Hennegan talks to Teryn Gray, Callum Pardoe and Jamie Patterson, the three actors from The Birth Of Frankenstein, about their background and the characters they play.

Celebrating the Birthday of American writer Ernest Hemingway, Nick Hennegan plays recordings of the man himself reading his own works. 

Nick Hennegan plays a rare 1940's recording of a Sherlock Holmes story. "A Scandal in Bohemia!'

Nick Hennegan celebrates BloomsDay with his first ever reading of Ulysses by James Joyce.

This time, Nick Hennegan has been at the London Library Summer Party, but is taking The Birth of Frankenstein to the Edinburgh Fringe... and invites you to join in the research! 

Nick Hennegan is in the Cross Keys Pub in Hammersmith, London W6 and looks at some of the famous local writers and celebrates American Walt Whitman's Birthday!

This time Nick Hennegan plays requests and poems on his radio show, with celebrity choice from John Le Carre and the Literary Pub Of The Week, Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese.

A quick look backstage at Maverick Theatre's production of TWO, by Jim Cartwright. This was the last night at the Theatre at the Tabard in Chiswick, London W4. Weeks of standing ovations, sold-out houses and tearful audiences! (For all the right reasons!) Now we tour!

This week on Literary London, Nick Hennegan’s celebrity poem has a moving insight into Lord Melvyn Bragg’s past. He also introduces his Literary Pub of The Week -  The George in Southwark, London.

Nick Hennegan looks at some facts - and otherwise - about William Shakespeare on his birthday weekend in April. Or was Shakespeare actually born in May? Find out why! Nick also shares his own experiences with The Bard of Avon and plays some classic poems, speeches and music.

Nick Hennegan talks to theatre worker and writer Nick Bromley about his life, work... and Theatre Ghosts!  Nick has been a West End Company Manager since 1971, with shows such as The Sound of Music, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and Love Never Dies to his name.

He is the sixteenth Master of the Drury Lane Theatrical Fund, founded by David Garrick in 1766, and a member of both the Ghost Club and the Society for Psychical Research.

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A gentle look back of some of the Bohemian highlights of 2022 with Nick Hennegan on Resonance 104.4fm's 'Literary London' It includes an interview with Andy Slaughter, M.P. for Hammersmith in London, on the occasion of a new artwork celebrating WB Yeats; music from the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Prejudice And Pride and Winston and David.... news of Jim Cartwright's TWO, and how you can put it on at your local bar, pub or community centre... and will Nick return to acting for the first time in 30 years?

We get festive with Cerys Matthews and Nick Hennegan talks about his version and plays part of A Christmas Carol which he's adapted and directed and is currently touring the UK, performed by Olivier award-winner Guy Masterson!

Nick Hennegan launches the festive season by exploring his relationship with Charles Dicken's A Christmas Carol, including how his Junior School helped and a reading by Olivier Award winner - actor, Guy Masterson. With Music by Cerys Matthews and Robb Williams.

Nick Hennegan talks to writer Elika Ansari, about her new novel, ‘The Five Stages of Moria: “The Worst Refugee Camp on Earth”’ based on true stories from her time as a worker in the camp.

Nick Hennegan celebrates National Poetry Day with poems from some of the greatest names in the world... and some of his own!