Classic sounds
Mature Times reviews The Beach Boys with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Don Reedman and Nick Patrick, the team behind the hugely successful A Love So Beautiful: Roy Orbison with The Royal Philharmon ...
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Paula’s Wines of the Week starting 11th June 2018
Shear your sheep, they say in Devon, when the elder blossoms peep. With buds appearing at the end of May, the clotted-cream coloured heads of the elder bush are ready for picking by the first week of ...
Eight groundbreaking British films from the 1960’s
Robert Tanitch reviews Woodfall: A Revolution in British Cinema (BFI) Kenneth Tynan, theatre critic for The Observer, famously said that he didn’t think he could love anybody who didn’t wa ...
Sidney Poitier, the first black American to become a major movie star
Robert Tanitch reviews the latest DVDs Sidney Poitier, now 91 years old, was the first black American to be nominated for an Oscar for Best Actor Award and the first black American to become a major m ...