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Without knowing it, John Cairney solved a family riddle for me in 2005 with the publication of his book, Heroes Are Forever – The Life and Times…

I like my orchestral music organised around Northern talent. An evening of two halves, this BBC Proms event saw Nottingham (which is geographically more North than South, so let’s forget for a moment that it’s in the midlands) was repped by four-piece band Divorce. Then, Rotherham-born Self-Esteem - or Rebecca Lucy Taylor, a seedling national treasure – performed an hour-long set “with some surprises”, primarily performing her own work with new arrangements by Colin Elliot.

The Midsomer Murders actor tells Katherine Hassell how she likes pungent bath salts, eggs Florentine, Spanish music and occasionally flying a Spitfire

His 1980 performance in Zimbabwe is still being talked about even by those who were not born at the time. Those who attended the concert are now in their fifties or older.

Signal box: IN the interests of accuracy, may I be permitted to comment on the caption which accompanied the Hertford East/Leyburn station…

THE mother of a man who took his own life has told of how the “sadness never goes” ahead of an exclusive symphony inspired by him being…

Ah - Radio Luxembury and Radio Caroline - that brings back memories and dates me at the same time. As a young student in 1964 I and a few friends lived in rented a semi-basement flat in Plymouth, I had a good old valve radio, but Luxemburg was hard to pull in, very faint. Then I realised that the phone line that had been put in when the previous married tennants were expecting and needed a phone for the babys arrival was still in place, the handset had gone but the line was in place. Eureka! Ae...

Q. As a child growing up in Newcastle, Co Down, you were told you were adopted. Was that traumatic? A. My mother told me, but I can’t remember what age I was when she did so. But she did do it in the only way to do these things, which was to wait until I was old enough to have some cognisance of what she was saying. Of course, I didn’t understand it completely but it was very beautifully put: "We chose you." She said all the right sort of things. Just a few months later a friend of my siste...

Barnes People, Original Theatre Company online review - intriguing quartet of monologues revived | reviews, news & interviews Barnes People, Original Theatre Company online review - intriguing quartet of monologues revived Barnes People, Original Theatre Company online review - intriguing quartet of monologues revived Jemma Redgrave and Adrian Scarborough excel in Peter Barnes radio solos brought to screen by Tom BirchenoughTuesday, 23 February 2021 The four monologues that make up...

Principal Investigator CHRISTINE FERGUSON is a Professor in English Literature at the University of Stirling, where her research focuses on the entwined histories of the literary gothic and the British occult revival in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Her publications include the books Determined Spirits: Eugenics, Heredity, and Racial Regeneration in Angl0-American Spiritualist Writing 1848-1930 (2012) and Language, Science, and Popular Fiction in the Victorian Fin de Siècle...