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10 Burning Spells, 8 March 2026
Scott Walker's birthday message to Bowie and (YES!) lost Bond song, the Gordon Burn Prize ceremony, brilliant Lisa McGee, jazz gig toilet flyers…
Mar 8
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Jude Rogers
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10 Song-Shaped Spells, 1 March 2026
A much-needed music week: two lots of Will and Walker, Manic energy, Savage love, Hedera, big bands and beyond
Mar 1
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Jude Rogers
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10 Half-Term Spells, 22 February 2026
The Simpsons do Hamlet, Donna Summer on ice, a mum and son whizz around London, staircases and fonts, and the reappearance of the past
Feb 22
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Jude Rogers
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10 Swansea Spells, 15 February 2026
Linder's scalpel-sharp art, celebrations with Swansea Modernist, Paul Mescal dancing, Britten and horse-hair harps, and why you must see Sinners
Feb 15
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Jude Rogers
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10 Young Spells, 8 February 2026
Songs to sons and from daughters, girls in ice palaces, the twitchy nights of Time Lords, Pulp doing ABBA and folk meeting opera
Feb 8
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Jude Rogers
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10 Train-Hopping Spells (plus an extra five downtime spells), 1 February 2026
Poetry in Oxford, Swansea sounds, Irish digging, Worcester Victoriana, the lights of Oxford, old friends and Catherine O'Hara's most moving movement
Feb 1
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Jude Rogers
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15 Northern Spells, Sunday 25 January 2026
Two weeks of lovely things in one: Newcastle with Kath & Bob, the bard of Robin Hood's Bay, Flannery O'Connor's peacocks, indie boys Jesse Armstrong …
Jan 25
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Jude Rogers
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10 Remembering Spells, 11 January 2026
David, Dad, Marc and Molly, Glenys and Therapy?, career lessons from Jessie Buckley and Guillermo del Toro, and a startling new memoir
Jan 11
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Jude Rogers
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10 Ending/Beginning Spells
Midnight blogging about new (old) films, Brett and Tony, Nina and Lily, cakes and cameras, at the turn of the year
Jan 5
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Jude Rogers
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10 Solstice Spells
A shivery winter's playlist for you, a week at Arvon, a day of Austen, and a new year documentary for the diary
Dec 21, 2025
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Jude Rogers
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10 December (Will Be Magic Again) Spells
The chilliest Christmas track of all time, fun with CMAT, Richard Hawley and Andrew Logan, plus festive treats with Elis and John, Theatr Clwyd and The…
Dec 7, 2025
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Jude Rogers
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10 Christmas Suggestion Spells, 23 November 2025
Get festive by supporting Monmouthshire businesses, Wales' new literary magazine, Dick Gaughan, Smaug, poetry collections and tired authors on sofas at…
Nov 23, 2025
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Jude Rogers
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10 Spells after the Storm, 16 November 2025
Voice notes from Stephen Graham, the better Potter, Ken Nordine on TV, wild Sandie, adolescent children falling for Kate and remembering Rachel Cooke…
Nov 16, 2025
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Jude Rogers
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15 Dark Evening Spells, 9 November 2025
Two Smiths at the drums, the teenage Radiohead, the underrated genius of Willy Russell, amazing Rhea Seehorn, sleeping lions and people we have loved…
Nov 9, 2025
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Jude Rogers
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