The unconventional instrumentation favoured by Tortoise is an indicator of how many different lineups have always jostled for space under the jazz umbrella. The national treasure that is The Pete Alle

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The year 1966 saw a new bright star light up the London stage. The play was Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead and the playwright was Tom Stoppard who, at 29, was the youngest person ever to have a

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