Buck Up Your Ideas

5 JANUARY

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

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

Personal recollections of cherished sci-fi and fantasy

When Mia McKenna-Bruce was offered the chance to play spirited young detective Lady Eileen ‘Bundle’ Brent alongside Martin Freeman’s Superintendent Battle, she jumped at the chance. But she wasn’t jum