It was an incredible 72 years ago that Doris Day’s Calamity Jane first went whip-crack-away and the Deadwood stage started a-comin’ on over the plain. Set in 1870’s Dakota in non-pc ...
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Blackstuff first hit our TV screens in a big way in 1980 as a BBC Play for Today. Five Bafta-winning episodes of Boys from the Blackstuff then screened in 1982, a seminal TV drama phenomenon, full of ...
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Doncastrians were out in full force for Mark Steel’s Leopard gig. Admittedly, some were there purely because there was nothing else to do on a Sunday night, as indeed, with forthright Yorkshiren ...
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There’s extra cause for celebration this year as Music in the Round’s annual May Festival of music gets underway in Sheffield, for 2025 marks the twentieth anniversary of MiR’s rever ...
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May 20, 2025
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