Winter wildlife
By the RSPB’s Jamie Wyver Wrap up warm to enjoy some of Britain’s best winter wildlife spectacles: from whirling clouds of hundreds of birds to fluffy white seal pups, this is the season to see nature ...
LIFESTYLE
Spike Milligan was the Godfather of Alternative Comedy
Robert Tanitch reviews latest DVDs Q SERIES 5, 6, 7 (Simply Media). Spike Milligan (1918-2002) had the last laugh – on his gravestone: “I told you I was ill.” He suffered from bipolar disorder and he ...
Script-writer JK Rowling’s fun, dazzling extravaganza is short on story magic
Joyce Glasser reviews Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (17 November 2016) Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them is not only a long, lavish and visually dazzling spin-off of the Harry Potter p ...
Half a Sixpence is the flash, bang, wallop musical
Robert Tanitch reviews Half A Sixpence at Noel Coward Theatre, London WC2 H G Wells’ Kipps was already a period piece when published in 1905. Set in Victorian England, the novel is a comic parable, a ...