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A good old gossip is medicine for the soul After a year of lockdowns, what the nation needs is a bracing chinwag 28 April 2021 • 6:00pm Gossip is good for you. Who knew? Apart from every woman on the planet. Except we consider it, far less pejoratively, to be a crucial line of communication; of facts and fictions, opinion and mood. Gossip, you see, is about people rather than things, which makes it the most valuable of social currencies. To paraphrase Churchill; a scurrilous rumour will get halfway around the world before the snoring, boring truth has had time to put on its boots.

PRINCE PHILIP was the first royal to embrace television, submitting to the first TV interview in 1961 with Richard Dimbleby. It was all about the Commonwealth Technical Training Week and the questioning didn’t deviate, and then in 1969, he was the driving force behind the first royal documentary, the Royal Family, which showed him barbecuing sausages. It was watched by 350m people, but hasn’t been seen since 1972. Inbetween those TV firsts, the duke flew north for 80 minutes in an aeroplane for another first: his first network TV interview. The Duke of Edinburgh arrives at Tyne Tees...

PRINCE PHILIP was the first royal to embrace television, submitting to the first TV interview in 1961 with Richard Dimbleby. It was all about the Commonwealth Technical Training Week and the questioning didn’t deviate, and then in 1969, he was the driving force behind the first royal documentary, the Royal Family, which showed him barbecuing sausages. It was watched by 350m people, but hasn’t been seen since 1972. Inbetween those TV firsts, the duke flew north for 80 minutes in an aeroplane for another first: his first network TV interview. This was for Tyne Tees and it was filmed i...

New book offers a fascinating portrait of the legendary Beatle by Christina Ianzito, AARP, December 16, 2020 | Comments: David Hogan/Pegasus Books/AARP It's been four decades since John Lennon was shot and killed by Mark David Chapman in New York City, a tragic, defining event that shocked and horrified fans the world over. Among those still marked by that night and fascinated by the legend is Lesley-Ann Jones, an English journalist and biographer of David Bowie and Freddie Mercury. In her new book, The Search for John Lennon: The Life, Loves, and Death of a Rock Star, she takes ...