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Richard Benson

  • Biographer, Journalist, and Critic, Freelance
London
As seen in: MSN UK, Daily Mail, Nature, The Guardian, The Independent (UK), The Telegraph, Yahoo Canada, Yahoo News Malaysia, Yahoo News New Zealand, Aol and
Author, The Farm (2005) and The Valley (2014). Contributing editor, Esquire. Interested in books, popular culture, C20th social history.
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Lee meets The Bee

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By Richard Benson
| The Bee Newsletter
If you're ever confronted by someone arguing that people from working-class backgrounds don't become successful writers, it may be useful to cite the example of Lee Child, aka James Grant from Birmingham. Lee/James is one of the bestselling contemporary writers on the planet.
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Write for the Mass Observation Archive

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By Richard Benson
| The Bee Newsletter
The Mass Observation Archive is one of our favourite British institutions. Based in Falmer in East Sussex and active since 1937, it is a national archive of records of “everyday life, thought and feeling in Britain”. That’s writing, photographs, drawings, some oral history materials and ephemera (tickets, menus, postcards and the like), all capturing ordinary life as lived by ordinary Brits for the past 90 years.
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The Working Class Library Episode 7: This Sporting Life by David Storey

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By Richard Benson, Claire Malcolm, David Peace
| The Bee Newsletter
In this episode of the Working Class Library, David Peace joins Claire Malcolm, Chief Executive of New Writing North, and Richard Benson, editor of The Bee, to discuss David Storey’s classic, controversial 1960 kitchen-sink novel, This Sporting Life.
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