Fighting on the Home Front by Kate Adie – book review
Journalist Kate Adie who has reported from war zones around the world has written this book about women’s contribution to the war effort during the First World War. ...
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Simon Russell appears as Shakespeare’s King Lear at the National Theatre
Robert Tanitch reviews King Lear at National Theatre/Olivier Simon Russell Beale has played a wide range of Shakespearean characters: Falstaff, Timon of Athens, Leontes, Malvolio, Cassius, Benedict, H ...
Robert Tanitch reviews the latest DVDs
WINGS (Eureka). During the next four years we will be seeing lots of films about World War 1. 27-year-old William Wellman’s great epic (1927), winner of the first Academy Award for Best Picture, is o ...
The Railway Man – heroism, tension, war, peace and a powerful love story
After the fall of Singapore in 1942, some 200,000 allied troops, including 25,000 UK soldiers, were forced into slavery by the Japanese. ...