Posted on behalf of Rick Stroud by Rosie Goldsmith
It is now a week and a bit since my encounter with Buzz Aldrin and I have landed back on planet real life. I emerge from the airlock and the first thing I encounter is my Moon event at London Literature Festival, Escape Routes. The festival is [...]
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Rick Stroud with his silvery-moonlight hair and air of a rumpled professor took us on a voyage of discovery on Tuesday night. He’s written The Book of the Moon about his obsession with the dead lump of rock that kickstarted astrology – oldest of all the world’s intellectual endeavours – and has filled humankind with mystery and wonder [...]
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A highlight of London Literature Festival for all of us was the visit of astronaut Buzz Aldrin. The event was introduced by Southbank Centre’s head of Literature and Spoken Word, Rachel Holmes, and co-chaired by authors and film-makers Rick Stroud and Andrew Smith (Rick Stroud is appearing again tomorrow, Tuesday 14th, at London Literature Festival).
Before [...]
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Day three at LLF and the anniversary of the birth of a nation to boot. How fitting that this evening the festival hosts one of the supreme all-American heroes, Buzz Aldrin.
After a Friday that saw the day job as Literary Editor of The Lady magazine segue into a sweltering train journey to Oxford to host [...]
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