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So crude was television in the beginning that the BBC took time to be convinced by John Logie Baird’s invention. Born in Helensburgh on 13 August 1888, Baird enrolled at Glasgow’s Royal Technology Col

THE GERRY ANDERSON STORY

It was December 1983, and Belgrade in former Yugoslavia was suffering a typically harsh winter. Temperatures had plummeted to as low as -10°C. Yet something happened that month which would warm the he

Lee Miller threw herself into life, dancing at Surrealist balls, taking fashion to Blitz-torn streets and dreaming up blue-spaghetti recipes, all the time intoxicating men and fighting inner demons, as Mary Miers reveals

Hildur Guðnadóttir is scrolling through her phone. Whereas most people use the device to collect photographs and notes alongside contact numbers, the Icelandic composer records snippets of music. Thes

Musical instruments have power, simply as things. They speak. They generate emotion. They tell stories about life, death, happiness and sadness – and about the past, which they can resurrect with curi