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Last modified on Mon 15 Mar 2021 14.22 EDT Betty Willingale, who has died aged 93, was one of the pioneers of British television drama. As a BBC script editor from the 1960s onwards she brought the works of Charles Dickens, Thomas Hardy, Emily Brontë, Alexandre Dumas, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Emile Zola and DH Lawrence to small-screen serials. Later, as a producer, she had success in turning modern literature into popular television with the BBC’s big-budget Fortunes of War (1987), Alan Plater’s adaptation of Olivia Manning’s novels, starring Kenneth Branagh and Emma Thompson as newlyweds ca...

  Credit...Sophie Chivet/Agence VU', via Redux Parents have suffered during this pandemic, moms especially. This we know — from social and traditional media, from polls, from studies that have survived the scrutiny of peer review. Levels of maternal depression and anxiety may vary (by socioeconomic status, marital status, the ages and needs of their kids), but the consistent theme seems to be: They are elevated. Why? Mothers have disproportionately lost their jobs and financial security during this pandemic, and those who do work find that the burdens of family life fall disproportionatel...

Le notti bianche (1957) We began this short week with a look at the enthusiastic response to Mark Harris’s Mike Nichols: A Life, and opening this month’s round on new and noteworthy books, we turn to a few more biographies. For a New York Times profile of literary biographer Hermione Lee, widely admired for her books on Virginia Woolf, Edith Wharton, and Penelope Fitzgerald, Charles McGrath spoke recently with novelist Julian Barnes who recalled the day that playwright and screenwriter Tom Stoppard approached Lee and asked her if she might consider making him her next subject. When she ...

Professor Lewis Wolpert, biologist, author and regular on TV and radio discussing science and depression – obituary After suffering suicidal depression, with his candour and dry humour Wolpert found himself in demand to talk about his experiences Professor Lewis Wolpert: a knack for explaining scientific ideas Credit: Eleanor Bentall Professor Lewis Wolpert, the developmental biologist and author, who has died of Covid-19 aged 91, was for many the approachable face of science, as a presenter or guest on numerous television and radio programmes. As a biologist Wolpert was best known for the ...

" Princess is a mind-boggling look at the everyday life of a contemporary woman in the 21,000-member-strong royal family... absolutely riveting" ( People magazine) Response to my readers After growing up in a tiny Southern town, I feel like the luckiest person alive to have traveled the world, and met lovely people from so many countries. The Middle East & Asia have been my main areas of travel, and like the rest of this good earth, including my own USA, I found negatives and positives in every culture. But, I also made the happy discovery that most people are genuinely kind hearted and most ...