Saturday 3–Friday 9 January

For almost 30 years, Paul O’Grady was seldom off the box. As Lily Savage, he’d hosted Blankety Blank, presented C4’s The Big Breakfast, and been a regular face on ITV’s This Morning. And, minus the pl

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The actor is proud to promote the Welsh language — even in lands far, far away

I could justifiably claim this year to have been a professional actor for 70 years. In 1956, when I was just 13, I was recruited to play the imaginary son of Eleanor Summerfield, the star of a Granada

WHEN she first began her career, Joan Bakewell was dubbed “the thinking man’s crumpet” by comedy writer Frank Muir. Such a comment made nowadays would have seen him succumb to “cancel culture”. Back t