Tag Archives: BBC

Making Hay while the sun (hopefully) shines

Making Hay while the sun (hopefully) shines

26 May to 4 June Hay-on-Wye, Wales The Hay Festival is one of the world’s top literary festivals, staged in the small town of Hay-on-Wye on the Wales-England border. This year the Hay Festival i ...
Another fine mess

Another fine mess

Laurel and Hardy, kings of comedy and the ultimate double act. The actual history of the duo may be less well known but one contemporary actor has taken on the persona of English born Stan Laurel and ...
Romance, jealousy and a murder

Romance, jealousy and a murder

Our selection of this week’s releases of books and DVDs The Button Makers Daughter by Merryn Allingham Elizabeth Summer is a freethinking and intelligent young woman who likes nothing more than painti ...