Tag Archives: Dark Angels

As I Died Lying

Posted on May 9, 2013 by Jamie Jauncey

Last autumn, John, Stuart and I, the three Dark Angels (d’archangels as we’ve now been christened by the endlessly inventive Faye Sharpe – see link to the Secret Archaeologist in the blogroll below), had a mad idea. It was a … Continue reading →

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Which story?

Posted on September 16, 2011 by Jamie Jauncey

Next week it’s time again for the annual Dark Angels expedition to Aracena, the small hill town in Andalucia where John Simmons, Stuart Delves and I take a party of students on our Advanced Creative Writing in Business course. For … Continue reading →

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Labour of love

Posted on June 10, 2011 by Jamie Jauncey

This is a commercial and I make no apologies for it. My friend John Simmons has written and published a beautiful book. It’s called The angel of the stories. It’s about a young woman called Julia who lives in a … Continue reading →

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Soundscapes

Posted on May 19, 2011 by Jamie Jauncey

What seems like a very long time ago now, I launched and published a monthly magazine for the radio industry. It was called, unsurprisingly, Radio Month and it aimed to do for the world of radio what Broadcast did for … Continue reading →

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Oxford blue

Posted on April 1, 2011 by Jamie Jauncey

I’m in Oxford now, at Merton College. Our Dark Angels students are working on their projects and I’m finding a brief moment of quiet in my room, remembering the first time I ever came here.  I was twelve years old. My … Continue reading →

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More dreams and portents

Posted on March 24, 2011 by Jamie Jauncey

Next week we go to Merton College, Oxford to run the second of our biennial Dark Angels masterclasses. It will be an exciting few days. Not only do we have BBC Radio 4’s In Business team joining us for part … Continue reading →

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Just do it

Posted on January 20, 2011 by Jamie Jauncey

In the last twenty-four hours I have spoken to two Dark Angels ‘graduates’ who both, independently of one another and unprompted by me, said in so many words: ‘the main thing that I got out of coming on the course … Continue reading →

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Dark Angels

Posted on January 13, 2011 by Jamie Jauncey

Each new year John Simmons, Stuart Delves and I meet in the Scotch Malt Whisky Society’s comfortable rooms on Edinburgh’s Queen Street, as we did today. It’s our annual Dark Angels partners’ meeting. We have a bar lunch, a bottle … Continue reading →

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Dawn chorus

Posted on September 30, 2010 by Jamie Jauncey

Finca el Tornero de Abajo is the Spanish home of my childhood friend, novelist Robin Pilcher. A chestnut farm on a hillside in the Sierra de Aracena, 100 kms northwest of Seville, it’s a place of magical light, long views … Continue reading →

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Cable news

Posted on September 23, 2010 by Jamie Jauncey

When the business secretary Vince Cable yesterday announced his plans to shine ‘a harsh light into the murky world of corporate behaviour,’ the director general of the CBI, Richard Lambert, went on the attack, saying: ‘It’s odd that he thinks … Continue reading →

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