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To the international world of ballet, Clement Crisp was the British critic to fear for half a century. Crisp's dance reviews for the Financial Times - "the pink 'un" - from 1970 until 2020 were legendary for their passionate fastidiousness about ballerinas and high style, their acuity about rising talents and the difficulties of creativity, and - often - their ferocity, when he saw something he thought a blight.
A 100-YEAR-OLD man who suffered life-changing injuries when he tripped over a discarded wire has won a five-figure payout from the city council.
Forty Years of ITV’s ‘Brideshead Revisited’ – Charming, Sentimental and Tragic Brian Dillon on the television programme’s museum of images and memories A meditation on ‘divine grace’, a hymn to the ‘splendours of the recent past’ – this is how Evelyn Waugh described his 1945 novel Brideshead Revisited. The grace is more earthbound, the splendours more ravishing in Granada Television’s celebrated adaptation, which turns 40 this year. In the autumn of 1981, a gilt stratum of English life in the 1920s and ’30s sauntered across British screens, its pri...
John Hayes obituary John Hayes’s anarchic humour and seditious line of thought made him a popular Institute of Education lecturer John Hayes’s anarchic humour and seditious line of thought made him a popular Institute of Education lecturer JohnCox Tue 20 Apr 2021 13.49 EDT Last modified on Tue 20 Apr 2021 14.48 EDT My partner, John Hayes, who has died aged 85, was one of the bright lights assembled around Basil Bernstein at the Institute of Education, London University, during its prime in the 1970s and 80s. Along with Bernstein, John taught about the social impediments to learning and th...
âI canât go onâ ⦠Laurence Olivier and Helen Mirren in 1976 in The Collection. Photograph: ITV/Rex/Shutterstock âI canât go onâ ⦠Laurence Olivier and Helen Mirren in 1976 in The Collection. Photograph: ITV/Rex/Shutterstock On his centenary, the veteran producer recalls adding punch to Coronation Street, bringing Brideshead to the screen and his âturbulentâ relationship with one of the acting worldâs greats Mon 19 Apr 2021 01.00 EDT There are more than 22,000 centenarians in the UK, and on 23 April there will be a sprightly addition to th...