Maxine Peake on making music with added witchcraft

From Shameless to Shakespeare, the TV actor has always done her own thing, and now that means a concept album about 17th-century magicLancashire's witch country lies a few miles north of Burnley. St Mary's Church is one of its premier attractions, just up the windy road from the Witches Galore gift shop, and perched at the top of the village of Newchurch-in-Pendle. The visitor's book is an international directory of witch enthusiasts and, presumably, come Halloween, the place is knee deep in got...

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