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On her 100th birthday, we raise a toast to the one of the last surviving stars of classic British and Hollywood cinema – British actor Glynis Johns.

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With the centenary of his birth, screenwriter Nigel Kneale is being celebrated for his varied work – including his landmark dramas about an alien-infested UK, writes Adam Scovell.

Actor and singer who played Truly Scrumptious in the 1968 film Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

A MEMORIAL plaque for one of the UK’s popular 50’s musicians has been unveiled in Monmouthshire – at the site of his death.

30th April 2020 by George Orwell and Fatherhood: Part One The most important influence on George Orwell was probably his father. This essay, then, explores the crucial theme of fatherhood in a number of contrasting ways. It first examines the responses of both Orwell and his contemporaries to his father. It then looks at the many fascinating representations of fathers in his novels. Orwell’s own strikingly progressive attitudes as a dad are highlighted as are, finally, the responses of his s...

Born Richard Maxwell on November 4, 1929 in London, he also went by the name Richard Bryce but was best known under the stage name Dickie Valentine. At the age of three, he appeared in Jack’s the Boy, making his acting debut alongside Jack Hulbert and Cicely Courtneige. He was known to be able to impersonate a number of other singers and while a young boy, was encouraged to take singing lessons by Bill O’Connor – who paid for the lessons himself. While in his late teens, he was perfo...