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From James Bond to Citizen Kane, the weeks best TV films

A star object from the Victoria and Albert Museums collection will go on display in a new exhibition on Thomas Hardy.

Julie Christie, (born April 14, 1941, Chukua, Assam, India), British film actress renowned for a wide range of roles in English and American films of the 1960s and ’70s, as well as for her offbeat, free-spirited personality. Christie was born on her father’s Indian tea plantation but was educated in England and France. She studied acting at London’s Central School for Drama and made her stage debut in 1957. Her first major film role was in director John Schlesinger’s Billy Liar (1963). ...

A Skimmington or skimmity ride is a procession, formerly common in villages and country districts, usually intended to bring ridicule or odium upon…

Fifty years after the release of his debut feature, the kitchen-sink classic A Kind of Loving, we plot a course through the career of John Schlesinger, the Oscar-winning British director of Billy Liar and Midnight Cowboy.

Actor and comedian who invested her many stage and screen roles with incomparable zest and cheek

The UK’s biggest beach yoga festival comes to Bournemouth this summer.

Pubs are vital to local communities but many have been closed over the years due to a combination of factors, including the sale of cheap alcohol in…

A lockdown collaboration between the Libertines frontman and the French composer’s parodic pop fantasies disappoints

Victorian poet Thomas Hardy’s apartment is up for sale in Wandsworth