“I just wish I could have gone for a drink with her.” Anna Cale, author of The Real Diana Dors
There was a time, as Peter Cook once joked, When Diana Dors Ruled the Earth. It’s a neat...
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Tag: biography
Happiness and Tears: comedy historian Louis Barfe talks about his new biography of Ken Dodd
What springs to mind when you think of Ken Dodd? Possibly it’s mad hair and sticky-out...
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Tastes of Honey: Shelagh Delaney biographer Selina Todd talks to Northern Soul
In April 1958, London-based theatre director Joan Littlewood received a package in the post from...
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Jane Austen at Home: Northern Soul talks to TV historian Lucy Worsley
“She was very intolerant of foolishness, vanity, empty talk, obsequiousness, time-wasting,...
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Review: Outsiders – Five Women Who Changed the World by Lyndall Gordon, Manchester Literature Festival
I’m tired of being told what a woman should and shouldn’t say. Coming off the back of a week where...
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