Our round-up of the funny, fascinating and unusual stories this fortnight

WITCHES AND WIZARDS AND SEQUELS, OH MY! THE FIRST FILM SHOOK UP THE BOX OFFICE LIKE A CYCLONE — AND WICKED: FOR GOOD AIMS TO GO DEEPER AND DARKER. GET READY TO FLY, MY PRETTIES…

From Bertie Wooster’s dressing gown to Mr Darcy’s shirt, Deborah Nicholls-Lee unpicks the art of period costume at world-famous historical costumier Cosprop

Earlier this summer, at one of Billie Eilish’s O2 Arena gigs, I witnessed tens of thousands of young girls, many of them queer, screaming the ‘Birds of a Feather’ singer’s name in tribal unison — and

On a frosty New Year’s Day in 1944, a young soldier from Newcastle married the love of his life with barely four hours to spare. My father, Corporal George Bell, a conscript with the Royal Electrical

Comedy historian Robert Ross pays tribute to some of the finest and funniest, but often overlooked, names in showbiz