That’s the end of another eventful week then, a week in which the Lansdown Arms changed hands and the North Korean government announced that they had acquired a nuclear arsenal. And a week of intermittent downpours which left the Ouse shudder-inducingly high in its banks. This week we’d like to thank the following people, without whom this issue would not have been possible to put together: Pooran Desai, Jean Davey Winter, Sarah and Sean O’Kane, Sonia Crivello, Joelle Robinson, Molly Verity, Chris Collison and finally Rafaella Sapir, her amazing baked bean, and all the people who volunteered to squash inside it.

This week’s contributors are: Karen Anderson, Gavin Burke, Katie Moorman, Jo Monroe, Emma Robertson, William Leith, Adrienne Campbell, Emma Chaplin, Carole Skinner, Steve King, Antonia Gabassi, Dexter Lee, Scott Chowen, Jess Wood, Nick Williams, Dave Wilson and Alex Leith.

Next week’s highlights include:
Thursday 19th: Eric Taylor, veteran US crooner ‘the William Faulkner of songwriting’ according to Nanci Griffith Listen.
Friday 20th-Monday 23rd: The Queen hits Lewes, in the form of Stephen Frears’ brilliant film.
Friday 20th: Machau by the Orlando Concert Singers at St. John Sub Castro
Monday 23rd: Novelist Ian McEwan talks at the Monday Literary Club