Viv Hardwick

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A million dollars of music

Inspired by the true story of the famed recording session where Sam Phillips, brought together icons Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis and Elvis Presley, Million Dollar Quartet is on its way to Newcastle

What a commitments!

CAPTURING the accent of 1980s-set The Commitments is easy for Dublin-born Brian Gilligan. Capturing a ragamuffin role in this musical adaptation of Roddy Doyle's book seems somewhat more difficult for someone who started out as an opera singer with the Royal Irish Academy of Music.

Digging her thing

TV presenter and archaeology writer May-Ann Ochota is on her way to the North-East to point out some of the fascinating facts that are right under our noses... drawn from her new book Hidden Histories.