The decline of the car in London is clear. We should embrace it

Rachel Parris, from Jane Austen-inspired improv comedy group Austentatious 

We grab a minute to talk Jane Austen, Alan Partridge, and making people cry with improv comic Rachel Parris

 

London agenda for Friday

 

Independent on Sunday sells only 52% of its distributed copies

— The per centage of the 120,000 copies of the Independent on Sunday that are paid for each week. Compare that to sister knock-off paper, i, which averages 300,000 per day. Boring old regular Independent sells 60,000 copies out of 80,000 distributed.

The Telegraph says that millionaire Tory party donor David Rowland has offered £10-15 million for The Independent

 

The Chicken Cottage Awards on video

 

"The mundane illuminated". We grab a minute with Melissa Dunne, artistic director of Papercut Theatre

London at night, for the London Lit Project 

In-depth interview: Flash fiction publisher Holly Clarke explains how a 60-word story can still mean something

 

Cirque du Hoxton Overground

 

A supernatural history of London's haunted parks

Roger Kite at his exhibition Pathways 

"Fail better". We grab a minute with artist Roger Kite at his new exhibition in Bethnal Green

 

Snipe Highlights

Some popular articles from past years

  1. Diary of the shy Londoner
  2. London has chosen its mayor, but why can’t it choose its own media?
  3. Only 16 commuters touch in to Emirates Air Line, figures reveal
  4. Punk brewery just as sexist and homophobic as the industry they rail against
  5. 9 poems about London: one for each of your moods
  6. Peter Bayley has worked for 50 years as a cinema projectionist in East Finchley
  7. A unique collection of photos of Edwardian Londoners
  8. Nice Interactive timeline lets you follow Londoners' historic fight against racism
  9. Margaret Thatcher statue rejected by public
  10. An interview with Desiree Akhavan

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