When 17-year-old Margaret Whigham made her society debut in 1930, resplendent in turquoise in a sea of young women dressed in traditional white, she was an instant sensation. Named London’s “debutante of the year” (one report said she was “a thoroughbred in a field of hacks”) she would be laudedContinue Reading
Review at a glance Things are ominous from the off in this new BBC six-parter. The music is brooding; the landscape, arid and Australian, is bleak; the protagonist, played by Jamie Dornan, is stony-faced and irritable. And within minutes, our man is hurtling through the outback in a rickety oldContinue Reading
Artist Es Devlin is among the capital’s cultural heavyweights recognised in the New Years Honours. The designer and artist, whose work includes West End theatre hits and London’s Olympic ceremonies, has been awarded a CBE. Devlin, who made her name with large scale installations, designed the UK pavilion at theContinue Reading
JK Rowling has admitted to ripping up the first few chapters of her upcoming novel in a tell-all Q&A with fans on Twitter. Answering a fan who asked the Harry Potter author, worth £820 million, for advice on finishing their first book, Rowling replied: “Today, I reread the first 14kContinue Reading
Celebs and chefs, eh? If there’s one they don’t lack, it’s self-belief, as evidenced by the raft of cookbooks they’ve come out with this year. Here, we’ve rounded up some of the most notable releases of 2021, from the actors we knew could perform on screen but had no ideaContinue Reading
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A longstanding mystery of the Star Wars franchise has been cleared up in the first episode of new Disney spin-off The Book of Boba Fett. The series, which landed on Disney Plus on Wednesday, focuses on former bounty hunter Boba Fett, played by Temuera Morrison. Boba Fett made his returnContinue Reading
TATE ST IVES Tate St Ives announces 2022 exhibitions and events highlights including a retrospective of Barbara Hepworth bringing together some of most important works, and with a special focus on her life in Cornwall For the first time at Tate St Ives, the exhibition is staged across both theContinue Reading
Review at a glance “We have to promise we will never, ever bore one another.” Such is the one condition upon which Claire Foy’s Margaret accepts a proposal from the Duke of Argyll (played by Paul Bettany) midway through the first episode of BBC One’s A Very British Scandal. ThoughContinue Reading
A Syrian refugee supported by Taunton based charity CHARIS refugees features in the Christmas edition of the BBC’s Countryfile programme. Abdullah Al Boukan came to Somerset with his family in 2017 as part of the UK government’s Community Sponsorship Scheme. The programme shows the former Syrian olive grower working atContinue Reading
