The bear necessity

WITH his floppy hat, duffle coat and suitcase full of marmalade sandwiches, Paddington is one of the most recognisable and beloved fictional characters of all time. In the stories, he was taken in by

Paddington is alive. He’s walking, talking – and singing and dancing – in a musical adaptation of his story. Almost seven decades after he first appeared in Michael Bond’s A Bear Called Paddington in

Toddlers love Paddington Bear. My two-and-a-half-year-old Nye is a big fan – he likes many bears, in fact. Winnie the Pooh is almost certainly his favourite and we’ve seen the 1977 Disney film approxi

It was just over 100 years ago, on Christmas Eve 1925, when we first met one of the most famous bears in literature. The London Evening News featured a story called The Wrong Sort of Bees, beginning w

Puppets and disrupters abound in this season’s family shows

If Paddington Bear was lost, homeless and roaming around Paddington Station today with nowhere else to go, he wouldn’t be the only one. “After the trains stop running, the underground closes and there