Professor Matthew Flinders, department of politics, the University of Sheffield and Dr Ruth Fox, Hansard Society.
Three quarters of people are unable to name their MP, according to an annual Hansard Society survey.
Though initially seen as mere musical contributors, Hansard and Irglova were ultimately cast as the leads in Once.
Mr. HANSARD and Ms. MARKETA IRGLOVA (Musicians): (As characters) (Singing) Words fall through me and always fool me.
"There's something about the sensibility of what he does that's so incredibly traditional, and yet so modern, " Hansard says.
The Tony-winning "Once" used existing music by Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova.
Glen Hansard, lead singer of The Frames and star of the movie Once, bought Molina's first album by accident, in a record store.
Mr. GLEN HANSARD (Lead singer, The Flames): (As character) (Singing) I don't know you, but I want you all the more for that.
"I bought this record, and that evening we were driving in the van, and I stuck it on, on the car stereo, " Hansard says.
In this segment, Hansard discusses the movie, as well as how he and Irglova first met and the strong parallels between the movie and his own life.
Turner Sims Concert Hall and John Hansard Gallery both received more money but, taking into account current and expected rates of inflation, the real value is a decrease.
The political engagement audit is carried out annually by Hansard.
Committees needed "the ability to call witnesses to account should they give false evidence or otherwise mislead a select committee", the Speaker told a Hansard Society event on Thursday.
BBC: Commons Speaker calls for sweeping new committee powers
Dissatisfaction with how MPs are doing their job rose by eight points, to 44%, over the past year, according to a survey by Ipsos MORI for the Hansard Society.
Long-struggling Irish singer and newly minted Oscar winner Glen Hansard just cracked the Billboard Top 10, a heartwarming rise that's bound to provide more commercial opportunities for his peers back home.
The report from the Hansard Society - a charity which aims to strengthen parliamentary democracy and encourage greater public involvement in politics - also suggests that 33% of people believed peers were elected.
The six groups with reduced funding are Southampton's Turner Sims Concert Hall, John Hansard Gallery and Nuffield Theatre, The Anvil in Basingstoke, Southampton-based Art Asia and the Aspex Visual Arts Trust, based in Portsmouth.
During a brief hiatus from The Frames, Hansard recently recorded The Swell Season, a collaboration with Czech singer and pianist Marketa Irglova, and the result aches and swoons amid some of the year's loveliest arrangements.
Those lines sum up much of The Swell Season's immense appeal: Though not exactly stingy with the romantic carnage, the disc feels as warm and content as anything Hansard has recorded in a mostly brilliant career spanning two decades.
From 1831-32, Dickens was a reporter for the Mirror of Parliament - an early Hansard competitor - and witnessed much of the national debate that led to the Great Reform Act of 1832, which is said to have opened the door to modern democracy.
The Cost understandably finds the band harboring more commercial ambitions than usual, even re-casting a pair of Swell Season songs as radio-friendly mid-tempo ballads, but no one involved has forgotten Hansard's odd ability to sound sweetly romantic, big-hearted, self-deprecating and emotionally stunted at the same time.
Like Hansard, Paddy Casey has gone platinum many times over in Ireland, but he hasn't had as many opportunities to find traction here: Amen (So Be It) received a major-label release in 2000 before becoming a find in 99-cent bins from coast to coast, and that's about it.
In 1991, the year that Glen Hansard started The Frames, he also played Outspan, the baby-faced Dublin guitar player in "The Commitments, " a feature that has gained a global following. (It's one of my favorite films ever.) What makes "The Commitments" so widely loved is, among other pleasures, its use of a working-class rock band's rise and fall as an armature for individual drama.
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