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A huge theatrical risk
One Nicosia businessman has turned his hobby of acting into a full-time vocation. THEO PANAYIDES meets him The stage set is simple enough, a courtroom stripped down to basics. There’s a bench for the...
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How to talk to animals
The life of an animal communicator is all about understanding the energy of the creature in question, a woman who has conversed with all kinds of species tells THEO PANAYIDES Let’s talk of Marmite –...
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Decades of service to Cyprus stories
For five decades a Nicosia bookshop has been a monument to everything Cypriot in print. THEO PANAYIDES meets its founder The first time I walk into MAM bookshop in Nicosia, to arrange a time for the...
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The importance of balance
For an acrobatic performer it is more than just literal, finds THEO PANAYIDES Acrobat. Dancer. Activist. Porn actor. Former model. Bassist for a thrash-metal band. All these terms might be used to...
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Free to say what he likes
Born blind, a Nicosia lawyer and former MP is known for his strong opinions and unhesitating way of expressing them. THEO PANAYIDES meets him Rikkos Mappourides has a lot of strong opinions. He has...
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Behind every great man…
THEO PANAYIDES finds the real driving force of Christmas deliveries is not Santa, but his sprightly wife in reluctant charge of his elves Santa was our first choice, admittedly. A forex millionaire...
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2016: The buzz of a stranger’s story
I should just admit here and now that the weekly profiles I write for the ‘Living’ section of the Sunday Mail (I spoke to 43 people in 2016) are a kind of emotional vampirism. I can feel it in my bones...
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‘A battle I have to win’
THEO PANAYIDES meets a leukaemia survivor who now wants to spread the word that cancer is not always a death sentence and can be a life changer in more ways than one Most of the time, you interview a...
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On the outside looking in
With her fifth book about to come out one English Cypriot writer has turned international attention to the history of Cyprus. THEO PANAYIDES meets her It’s New Year’s Eve and I find Eve Makis in the...
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Life in the dream factory
You may have seen a rising Cypriot actor on TV. And you’re sure to see more of him says THEO PANAYIDES after meeting a man who also writes and directs I’m in Geri, a dishevelled village on the...
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Safety and risks
For one man, a lifetime at Helios and other top jobs has become a thing of the past. Following a lifelong love of cars, he now runs a tyre shop. THEO PANAYIDES meets him. What would you call your tyre...
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Creatively chaotic
THEO PANAYIDES meets the Arab clown, a man who is serious about his trade and not so carefree as his personas One video riffs on Cyprus villages with funny names. Another is called ‘When Arabs Talk’,...
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Embracing a brave new world
THEO PANAYIDES meets a start-up entrepreneur keen to take advantage of globalisation and our changing times I first catch a glimpse of Demetrios Zoppos standing by the side of the road, outside the...
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Chasing the F1 dream
THEO PANAYIDES meets a teenager who says his life is on the race track and who has progressed from karts to Formula 4 with the drive of an outsider On the phone, when arranging a profile, I often ask...
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Finding her authentic self
In a story of change, THEO PANAYIDES meets a woman who saw her life collapse and has now passed through love to trust her heart over logic and create her own reality It began with the mandalas....
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A one-woman revolution at Nicosia Central Prison
From a dysfunctional branch of government, Nicosia’s Central Prison has been cajoled into a working facility. THEO PANAYIDES meets the young, clever and technocratic woman who has turned it around...
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Celebrating 40 years of gallery and its owner
Seeing art as a kind of freedom, the owner of Gloria Gallery tells THEO PANAYIDES about 40 years of exhibitions and her role in the arts scene We decide to sit upstairs, just myself and Gloria...
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Less isn’t always more for The Zilla Project’s Big Mo
THEO PANAYIDES meets ‘the showgirl’ of local Blues band whose life offers many of the elements of a good Blues song: violence, excess, self-destruction and – inevitably – the love of a good woman I’m...
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The lawyer who loves the law but is in love with theatre
Representing people society might view as unsavoury, THEO PANAYIDES meets a lawyer moved by what he sees on stage with enough human connection to want to change the world You can tell that Andreas...
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Pigs in the buffer zone
THEO PANAYIDES meets one of the island’s largest pig farmers who sounds the death knell for animal farming on the island in general You learn something new every day, and today we’re going to learn...
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