It’s not all about the glamour when you’re a famous actress, as I find out when I chat to Holliday Grainger. “I was in Mauritius yesterday and now I’m in Blackburn,” she tells me. Unless...
Read MoreStanding in the central hall of Manchester Art Gallery looking up at the decoration on the walls, a row of sculptures of men riding on horses caught my eye. Those delicately balanced riders, those gently bobbing hooves,...
Read More“We read to know we’re not alone.” If, like me, you sat in a darkened cinema in the early 1990s watching Shadowlands, all the while trying to stifle unrelenting tears, then you may remember this line....
Read MoreDown the decades, British television has thoroughly enjoyed a good literary adaptation. But the last 20 years have seen a particularly marked resurgence in the field, spearheaded by the phenomenal success of the BBC’s 1995...
Read More“I mean, look, face it: if you turned up somewhere and there was this 65-year-old bloke singing The Toppers’ 1954 classic Baby, Let Me Bang Your Box on a ukulele, you’d wonder where he’d come from.” In the bar...
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