Nuala McKeever Gets... carolsxmas
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Is it a panto? Oh no it isn’t! Listen to extracts from rehearsals. ‘Right everyone, stop rubbing Norman.’ Andrea Montgomery pushes open the double doors at All Souls Church Hall in Belfast, and declares: ‘Culture Northern Ireland is here.’ Norman, in case you are wondering, is the genie in Carol’s Christmas, a new seasonal comedy written

Onan’s Olympics judaandtamar
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An article in Slate today about birth-control made me think of that most unfairly reviled of biblical men, poor old Onan. To make a long and quite deviant story (seriously, Dynasty has nothing on some of the early Bible stories) short, Judah had three sons. Er, the eldest, got married to Tamar and then got