A virtuoso of the humble tin whistle, Potts joined Paddy Moloney and colleagues in 1962 to join the group that went on to become global megastars of Irish folk music.
RSC’s ‘Wolf Hall’/’Bring Up the Bodies’ Headed to West End
The Royal Shakespeare Company’s two-part staging of Hilary Mantel’s Booker Prize-winning novels about Thomas Cromwell and Henry VIII have been playing to packed houses in Stratford-upon-Avon since December.
‘The Best Six Months of My Writing Life’: Hilary Mantel on Putting Her Cromwell Novels Onstage
“I’ve had so much inspiration from what happens on stage night by night – and I’ve understood things that I don’t think I did understand before about the characters.”
An Autobiography Ghostwriter’s Nightmare
Andrew O’Hagan recounts the fiasco that was his attempted collaboration with Julian Assange, the worst autobiography subject ever.