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MY my, we could never let the sheer joy and exuberance of ABBA’s smash hit musical “Mamma Mia” go. In the 26 years since the show launched in London’s West End, it has become a global phenomenon. Some

AFTER seven years at my primary school, I can say I absolutely love our headteacher. Her name is Mrs Best and she really is the best. She always makes sure we have something to look forward to. Every

T here is a low-level hum that forms the soundtrack to many women’s lives. It’s a conditioning. The silent expectation to be the architect of everyone’s day, managing the moods of daily life. Being th

In 1976, the revolutionary singer-songwriter LAURA NYRO returned from self-imposed exile. But her comeback confounded expectations, shifting away from the impassioned intimacies of her early albums to embrace more radical perspectives. Fifty years on, Nyro’s collaborators revisit her striking second act. “She was a hip American from the Bronx,” one friend and producer tells Rob Hughes. “But her soul was old.”

Mica Paris has no plans to fade into the background — even if her last role in EastEnders technically left her behind bars. “EastEnders was a while ago now,” she laughs. “Would I ever go back? Well, I

The Railway Children and Call the Midwife star, 72, on having a baby on Christmas Day, the best day of her life and how she never really wanted to be an actor