First impressions

‘There’s a fly floating around in my milk! There’s a foreign body in it,” the strange young man said as he sat in the back of a car. His interviewer, another Englishman, had asked him a question about

Comedy historian Robert Ross pays tribute to some of the finest and funniest, but often overlooked, names in showbiz

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

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

Leigh Lawson has embraced acting and poetry with the same determination that sustained Marie Lloyd, the music-hall queen whose memorabilia he collects, as Carla Passino discovers

This month sees the tenth anniversary of David Bowie’s death. One of the most influential and pioneering musicians of the 20th and 21st centuries. This intelligent, articulate, witty, endearingly ecce