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Back before the pandemic kicked off last year, I wrote a cracking piece around the forthcoming new James Bond film, No Time To Die. I’ve dusted down that column twice now, first in anticipation of the film’s rearranged launch last November and then again for this coming April. But now the film has been postponed for a third time, not launching at the cinema until next autumn. (Much) older readers may remember that it was a white dove and an olive branch that signalled to Noah the end of the great flood and his odyssey on the Ark. I think we’ll know when this pandemic has truly ended...

BBC News By Kate Scotter image captionBasil Brown was an archaeologist who worked for Ipswich Museum Archaeologist Basil Brown unearthed some of the greatest treasures ever found in the UK. The story of the Sutton Hoo discovery is being retold in the new Netflix film The Dig. Who was Mr Brown and what was his role in revealing the Anglo-Saxon finds? Who was Basil Brown? Born in 1888, he was the only child of farmer George and Charlotte Brown. He spent almost his entire life in the Suffolk village of Rickinghall and left the local school there at the age of 12.

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By Herald Magazine The best of our weekly guide to everything happening in Scotland Ralph Fiennes as Basil Brown and Monica Dolan as May Brown Picture: PA Photo/Netflix/Larry Horricks Ralph Fiennes assumed his character in The Dig was a piece of fiction when he first read the script. The new Netflix film tells the extraordinary story of Sutton Hoo; the excavation - as the Second World War loomed - of a medieval grave in Suffolk, where a 27m-long ship was buried. Not only that, but a chamber full of dazzling ...

Try finding a gentler escape from winter in a pandemic than spending 112 minutes in Suffolk’s waterways and sun-yellowed grasslands, the setting of The Dig, a tale of buried treasure, romance and heroism. Directed by Simon Stone and based on a novel by John Preston, the film dramatises the true discovery in 1939 by Basil Brown and Edith Pretty of the richest medieval grave to be found in Europe to date. History tells us that Mrs Pretty, an amateur archaeologist, owned a tract of land in Sutton Hoo beside the River Deben. Intrigued by a grassy archipelago of mounds on the land, she employed...