{"id":3620,"date":"2025-07-29T17:30:29","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T17:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hds-online.co.uk\/?page_id=3620"},"modified":"2025-07-29T17:30:58","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T17:30:58","slug":"notes-from-a-small-island","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.hds-online.co.uk\/?page_id=3620","title":{"rendered":"Notes From A Small Island"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hds-online.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Notes-1024x683.avif\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3621\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hds-online.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Notes-1024x683.avif 1024w, https:\/\/www.hds-online.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Notes-300x200.avif 300w, https:\/\/www.hds-online.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Notes-768x512.avif 768w, https:\/\/www.hds-online.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Notes-1536x1025.avif 1536w, https:\/\/www.hds-online.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Notes.avif 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Playwright &#8211; Bill Bryson&nbsp;adapted by&nbsp;Tim Whitnall<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Location &#8211; Harrogate Studio Theatre<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Director &#8211; Sue Atkin<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Bill Bryson &#8211; Matt Melenas<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>All other parts played (in alphabetical order) by:-<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Rebecca Albro<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Richard Blackburn<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Mel James<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Chris Kendall<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>James Reilly<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Janet Wilson<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>In 1995, Bill Bryson, an American writer from Des Moines, Iowa, published Notes from a Small Island, based on an earlier tour of Britain, followed twenty years later in 2015 by The Road to Little Dribbling.  In a national poll the former was voted as the book that best represents Britain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In his journeys, Bryson brings to light numerous idiotic, endearing, ridiculous and sometimes eccentric incidents as seen through the eyes of an American, which anyone reading the books will easily recognise as our beautiful, magnificent and unique country. Indeed, his acute funny and perceptive insights bring together all that is best and worst about Britain today!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All other parts played (in alphabetical order) by:- In 1995, Bill Bryson, an American writer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3620","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hds-online.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hds-online.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hds-online.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hds-online.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hds-online.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3620"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.hds-online.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3623,"href":"https:\/\/www.hds-online.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3620\/revisions\/3623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hds-online.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}