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Richard Beaumond has expertise in a wide range of Arts
activities as writer, producer and musician. His interest in drama
includes its use in education, especially at community level. He has
conceived and delivered a wide variety projects, including site specific
community
plays, publications, installations, murals & events.
In all these
activities, groups and individuals have been enabled to develop a wide
range of creative personal and social skills. Many of these activities
have been published in various forms: Along the Line, an
oral history of the Heart of Wales Railways Line (1996), Puffing
Through Fairyland, an evocation of the Bishop’s Castle Railway
(1999), poetry anthologies with the Border poets include Leaves at
the World’s
Edge, The Path from the year’s height, Lodestones and
most recently The Lord’s Hill Project, an oral history
of Gone to Earth filmed by Powell and Pressburger in 1949 on
the site of the original book
by Mary Webb, with over 300 local participants.
Richard has also been a South West dialect adviser
to the BBC with How
to spake Salop. The associated programmes are available on the BBC
website and through Pentabus and other theatre companies.
www.bbc.co.uk/shropshire/voices2005/shropshire_calling.shtml
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