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  • Diamonds in the Rough is a fantastic documentary about the role that hip-hop is playing in organizing the anti-war/anti-poverty movement in Uganda.

    Boing Boing 2008

  • She recorded her first album of country and blues covers for Smithsonian Folkways but wound up on post-punk label Rough Trade by the end of the 1980s.

    The Pop Scene: Around the World in Various Styles Andy Beta 2011

  • In the 1990s, she fronted a very popular BBC2 youth travel programme called Rough Guide.

    Coming soon – my stand-out memories of the Noughties… « Ken Wilson's Blog 2009

  • In the 1990s, she fronted a very popular BBC2 youth travel programme called Rough Guide.

    2009 December « Ken Wilson's Blog 2009

  • There was a Ghost Wright, and a Chinese miner in Rough and Ready, California, whose name was given only as "Hunger."

    Archive 2005-06-01 2005

  • "Have you seen a newsboy they call Rough and Ready, this morning?"

    Rufus and Rose Or, The Fortunes of Rough and Ready Horatio Alger 1865

  • German producer Pantha du Prince switches from Kompakt's techno sub-label (Dial) to notable indie label Rough Trade with his exceptional third release,

    ! Exclaim.ca - News Jason Schreurs 2010

  • The rocker - who now performs with The Cribs - also believes record label Rough Trade agreeing to the controversial album title was a triumph for the band.

    Top Stories: BreakingNews.ie 2010

  • Supporting Cocker at the events will be a selection of artists signed to his record label Rough Trade.

    Tourdates Unsigned Chart 2008

  • It was then safe and agreeable for that quiet, refined family, only because the London "Rough" -- that ugly, unwholesome, fungous growth on the fine old oak of English character -- had not made his unwelcome appearance in all the public parks of the metropolis.

    Queen Victoria, her girlhood and womanhood Grace Greenwood 1863

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