The bard celebrates two other fine practitioners of the art, and laments a lost brewer
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Angela the activist: a remarkable life, remarkably lived
Angela Remembered: The Life of Angela Gradwell Tuckett
by Rosie MacGregor
(WaterMarx Media, £10)
This right-wing conspiracy theory is used to justify the coercive measures against gender, race and labour rights that best serve capitalism, attests GAVIN O’TOOLE
KENNY MONROSE recommends a new exhibition that highlights the significance of Black British music
ANGUS REID is bowled over by an exuberant film about the making of Keith Jarrett’s legendary concert
MARIA DUARTE, FIONA O’CONNOR and ANDY HEDGECOCK review Savage House, Enzo, Madfabulous, and Erupcja
CHRIS SEARLE recommends a work of love and deep admiration for a great musician
ANGELA GRADWELL TUCKETT’S life was indeed richly lived and Rosie MacGregor has done her proud with this work of respect and love for an old comrade.
Born in 1906 Gradwell Tuckett had an affluent childhood and was visited, among others, by George Bernard Shaw, William Morris, Eleanor Marx and Emmeline Pankhurst. As a student she excelled both in sports and academically, becoming the first female law student in Bristol in 1923 and enrolling as a solicitor in 1928.
Joining the Communist Party was “unavoidable” and she was soon organising meetings, acting as a driver and becoming a legal observer at demonstrations, where she faced two baton charges by the police in 1932. Her legal expertise proved useful in defending the leaders of the National Unemployed Workers Movement who had been arrested for incitement.
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