On this week in history
Every week we go back to re-visit some of the significant happenings that took place in living memory; just about, for some of us. To remind ourselves of how life has changed and how some things stay ...
Monthly Archives: August 2015
Mane Attraction
A lock of hair from the Duke of Wellington’s war horse he rode to victory in the Battle of Waterloo is being auctioned – after laying undiscovered for more than a CENTURY. The historic piece of ...
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Birds ‘shout’ to make sure they are heard over loud man-made noise such as TRAFFIC, new research says. Boffins claim that bluebirds will alter their songs in response to increases in nearb ...
“I wanted,” said Timberlake Wertenbaker, “to explore the redemptive power of theatre.”
Robert Tanitch reviews Our Country’s Good at National Theatre Timberlake Wertenbaker’s play is based on The Playmaker by Thomas Keneally and is set in the penal colony of Sydney Cove, New South ...