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A Cream Cracker Under the Settee (Season 1 Episode 6 of 6): Alan Bennett's monologue A Cream Cracker Under the Settee. Talking Heads with Thora Hird airs on BBC Four HD at 11:10 PM, Sunday 5 May. Alan Bennett's monologue A Cream Cracker Under the Settee

William Shakespeare drew inspiration from many sources throughout his life, including his personal experiences, historical events, mythology, and literature from various cultures.

Star of the TV sitcom Love Thy Neighbour, hugely successful in the 1970s but later seen as racist and anachronistic

Bell is one of Australia’s most illustrious theatre personalities. He founded the Bell Shakespeare theatre company in 1990.

The #Disrupt Texts website is a pernicious advocate of displacing Shakespeare and other significant figures and works, including F. Scott Fitzgerald’s <em>The Great Gatsby</em>, Harper Lee’s <em>To Kill a Mockingbird</em> and Arthur Miller’s <em>The Crucible</em>.

The latest salvo has been fired in the attempt by race-obsessed elements at the University of Michigan to defend the university administration’s attack on composer and professor Bright Sheng.

Composer and professor of music Bright Sheng found himself right in the centre of conflicts over race and identity — and blackface — when he tried to teach the mysteries of turning Shakespearean drama into opera. Composer and professor of music Bright Sheng found himself right in the centre...

A professor's recent showing of Laurence Olivier's offensive "Othello" prompts a heated — and necessary — conversation.

Share with: Thought-provoking, stimulating and in some cases as poignant today as it was then: Vol 2 of BBC’s much acclaimed anthology series brought the works of some of Britain’s best writers and actors to the screen. Six plays (first transmitted between 1972 and 1979) address topics such as the inequality of the British education system, gangland wars, welfare cuts, immigration and miners strikes in rural areas. Disc 1 features two stories written by Tom Clarke – the first one, ‘STO...

An agricultural group associated with Angus Taylor’s family thanked the New South Wales deputy premier, John Barilaro, for a $107,000 grant that was used to fund research to support lobbying efforts for the watering down of protections for endangered native grasslands. At the time, in late 2016, a separate Taylor family-controlled company, Jam Land, was under investigation for illegal clearing of native grasslands, in breach of the same...