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They feel like comedy’s Dead Sea Scrolls Eighty of Victoria Wood’s previously unseen scripts are to be released this autumn. News of the new book, released with the blessing of her estate,  comes five years to the day after the comedian died at the age of 62. The scripts were discovered by writer Jasper Rees while he was researching her biography, Let’s Do It, which was released last year. He first spoke of unearthing the treasure trove of material when he appeared at the Chortle Comedy ...

Helen McCrory, versatile actress who dominated the stage and shone on screen in Peaky Blinders and The Queen – obituary The Telegraph’s Charles Spencer put her in his ‘pantheon of actors whose name in the programme always creates the anticipation of pleasure’ Helen McCrory, 2013 Credit: Andrew Crowley Helen McCrory, who has died of cancer aged 52, made her name as a subtle and intelligent stage performer, and later bucked the trend that consigns actresses to oblivion in middle age, beco...

JOINT PARTNERSHIP: BUAN and TheNeoHub signing memorandum of Understanding(MoU) The Botswana University of Agriculture and Natural Resources (BUAN) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), with a local innovation lab, TheNeoHub. Speaking during the signing ceremony, TheNeoHub Founder and Director, Zindzi Montshwari Letsididi said as an innovation lab, TheNeoHub aims to provide a one-stop-shop for innovative entrepreneurs and propel them to be sustainable key players recognized loca...

Our contributors, from across our quarterly print issues and our website, read as widely and wildly as they write. Here, they tell us about the books that moved them most in this strange year.  It’s a privilege, of course, to spend time thinking and writing about some of my favorite books that were published during this most absurd and solitary—most mendacious, violent, American—of years, but I’m grateful to the following artists, among others, for sustaining my spirit. I...

Rating: Something strange has happened at Channel 5 lately, by which I mean it isn’t as obsessed with, say, endlessly showing ‘the human face’ of bailiffs, and is actually offering some decent shows to watch.  I think the opposite of rot set in with Our Yorkshire Farm, and then its production of All Creatures Great And Small, which makes it seem as if the channel is now solely a Yorkshire-based concern, but with Accused: Trial In The Outback, we do at least move to Australia. I thought ...