That’ll be the day

Photographer Martin Parr shows us his singular vision of Britain

Few programmes in ITV’s rich 70-year history have showcased such creative diversity as Storyboard, Thames Television’s prestige anthology series. Announced to the press on 9 June 1983 by Lloyd Shirley

DURING THE LAST week of November 1963, the Beatles’ “I Want to Hold Your Hand” was released in the United Kingdom. That same week, a young Brit named Laurence Juber started playing guitar. It wouldn’t

SHE might have taken leave of her job as one of the longest-standing news anchors in the country, but the last thing Sally Magnusson is planning to do is put her feet up. The BBC presenter, known for

He may have been the life of the party at the height of his music career but, these days, Martin Kemp prefers his home comforts. “I always used to look at myself as an anecdote vampire. I would go out

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