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  The Bee Gees: How Can You Mend A Broken Heart?  With their tight medallions and chest rugs, the brothers Gibb were figures of fun to some, but they wrote more than a thousand songs and had 20 No 1 hits across the globe.  The trio enjoyed success from the 1960s to the 2000s and penned tunes for themselves and artists such as Diana Ross and Barbra Streisand. But they suffered their fair share of problems: marital strife, a brief split and the death of younger brother Andy, before twins Mauri...

14 shares I wanted a way of earning money that wouldnt be affected by the pandemic and delivering fit the bill. Since restrictions have eased, the People Like Us star has been able to resume his regular acting duties as hes only a zero-hour contact with the online food delivery company.  Delivering fit the bill! The film, TV and stage star, 46, who played Police Constable/Sgt Mark Mylow in Doc Martin in 2004 (pictured), admitted his career was affected by the pandemic Stressful: Father-of-two ...

Doc Martin and Small Axe actor from Bristol now a Deliveroo rider as work dries up in pandemic Stewart Wright stars in Steve McQueens Small Axe on BBC One tonight Bristol actor Stewart Wright turned to Deliveroo riding after work dried up in pandemic (Image: John Myers) FIND OUT WHATS ON NEAR YOU WITH OUR NEWSLETTER Invalid EmailSomething went wrong, please try again later. SIGN UP When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. Sometimes they’ll incl...

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TV Editor Theres a major HBO documentary about the Bee Gees, more madness with Ray and the gang on The Den, some David Blaine, Ant & Dec, Mortimer & Whitehouse and the finale of Small Axe . . . Pick of the Day The Bee Gees: How Can You Mend a Broken Heart? 9.00pm, Sky Documentaries & NOW TV This HBO documentary chronicles the triumphs and hurdles faced by brothers Barry, Maurice, and Robin Gibb, otherwise known as the Bee Gees. The iconic trio, who found early fame in the 1960s, went on to wri...

Movies about fighting for safe Black spaces stood out in 2020 Movies about fighting for safe Black spaces stood out in 2020 Mangrove, Lovers Rock and The 40-Year-Old Version spoke to each other and 2020 in the ways their characters search for safe spaces By Radheyan Simonpillai Letitia Wright and Malachi Kirby lead a protest scene from Mangrove. In Mangrove, the opening movie from Steve McQueen’s rousing Small Axe anthology, is about Britain’s Black Caribbean community fight for a ...

Parasite, Bong Joon-hos breakaway hit  Which films made a splash in 2020? Frankly, I haven’t a clue. Or at least, none founded on the way the industry usually measures these things: by cold, hard box office takings. For almost five months of the calendar year, all 840 cinemas in the UK were closed. Many remained shut even when permitted to reopen thanks to the lack of new mass-market releases, as Hollywood battened down the hatches. In 2019, global box office revenue hit £31.67 billion: ...

Death of a Headmaster | BBC Sounds OTHERtone with Pharrell, Scott and Fam-Lay | Google Podcasts Twenty-five years ago last week, Philip Lawrence was stabbed. He was the headteacher at St George’s school in Maida Vale, north-west London, and had stepped in to protect a pupil who was being attacked at the school gates by teenagers from another school. Lawrence died later the same day. One of his former pupils, broadcaster Edward Adoo, presents Death of a Headmaster, a touching and fair-minded ...

The 50 best cultural events of 2020 From film and TV to opera and art, The Telegraphs critics look back at the highlights of the year The leading lights of the last 12 months Its been the most difficult year for the arts in memory, with countless events cancelled and many performers left out of work. And yet, in the face of these setbacks, there have still been reasons to be cheerful: gripping TV dramas, blockbuster art exhibitions and brilliant new albums. Radio brought millions of locked-dow...

From nostalgia for unsocial-distanced parties to chess: why we're all fetishising normality during the lockdown