An audacious planIn May 1951, the Glasgow University students – Ian Hamilton, Kay Matheson, Gavin Vernon and Alan Stuart – confessed all in a BBC radio interview about just what had happened that night. It all began late on Christmas...
4. The Hollow Man (1935) – John Dickson CarrWhen it comes to locked-room mysteries specifically, few are as high calibre as The Hollow Man. The novel is specifically referenced in Wake Up Dead Man by Daniel Craig's detective Benoit Blanc,...
Alamy(Credit: Alamy)A Grand Day Out (1998)Way before the feature-length Wallace and Gromit films of more recent decades, my family would tune in each Christmas to the BBC reruns of Aardman's original 1980s and 90s claymation classics. Today, the cosy, tea-and-toast-on-the-sofa...
Tom Brook was the first on the scene when the BBC reported on John Lennon's death, later interviewing his widow, Yoko Ono, and their young son. Today, he reconnects with Sean Ono Lennon on his parents' legacy – and giving...
Fossey's early research demanded patience. To gain the gorillas' trust, she began to mimic their behaviour. She told the BBC's Woman's Hour in 1984: "I'm an inhibited person, and I felt that the gorillas were somewhat inhibited as well. So...
Born just a year apart (Turner in sooty London in 1775, Constable in a serene Suffolk village in 1776), the two were, from the first, "fire and water" opposites, as another reviewer in 1831 would describe them. Turner, whose father...
6. Peach, soft browns and cream"Paint colours are a backdrop on which to layer, rather than the hero," says interior designer Christian Bense. "Mixing tones allows for a more organic styling of our homes." Bense chose a warm neutral brown...
Her married status didn't stop brothers Giuliano and Lorenzo di Piero de' Medici fighting over her affections and she was muse to many artists, including Sandro Botticelli. Some even think she was the inspiration for Venus in The Birth of...
Terrelonge also notes that the kind of fabrics found in these countryside styles, the waxed cottons, leathers and tweeds, are aspirational, in an understated rather than showy way. Plus, for the wearer, there's a quiet confidence lent to them by...
The star is "captivating", alongside an "impeccable" Gwyneth Paltrow, in this "madcap" film about a young man who scams and steals his way to becoming a table-tennis champion.Quite apart from his on-screen characters, Timothée Chalamet is one of the most...
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