{"id":337,"date":"2026-01-14T13:26:23","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T13:26:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.anitabhalla.co.uk\/?page_id=337"},"modified":"2026-01-14T13:28:24","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T13:28:24","slug":"bmusic","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.anitabhalla.co.uk\/?page_id=337","title":{"rendered":"B:Music"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.licdn.com\/dms\/image\/v2\/D4E22AQGIR90n9l6bCw\/feedshare-shrink_800\/B4EZssvpUyGoAg-\/0\/1765982424611?e=1770249600&amp;v=beta&amp;t=fU1AWi5Ac6_IKUzAxCNQvNhpLtY6aSPRmhJXxoTw-H0\" alt=\"No alternative text description for this image\" style=\"width:259px;height:auto\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">On 15 December, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/bmusicltd\/\">B:Music<\/a> venue Town Hall was awarded a blue plaque by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/the-birmingham-civic-society\/\">The Birmingham Civic Society<\/a> to commemorate a remarkable moment in literary history: the first-ever public reading of A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, which took place at the venue on 27 December 1853. The plaque was unveiled by acclaimed Birmingham actor Anton Lesser (Wolf Hall, Endeavour, Game of Thrones) alongside The Lord Mayor of Birmingham, Councillor Zafar Iqbal MBE. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/posts\/claire-lishman-a8909414a_a-truly-special-evening-at-birmingham-town-ugcPost-7407067415177736192-SgnL?utm_source=share&amp;utm_medium=member_desktop&amp;rcm=ACoAACxof68Bs8nYKl0NMjyVcJq_n3XMy276WQ0\">https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/posts\/claire-lishman-a8909414a_a-truly-special-evening-at-birmingham-town<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-337","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anitabhalla.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anitabhalla.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anitabhalla.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anitabhalla.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anitabhalla.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=337"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.anitabhalla.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":341,"href":"https:\/\/www.anitabhalla.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/337\/revisions\/341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anitabhalla.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}