In 1970, I worked for the first and only time with Peter Bowles in The Ambassador, part of a TV series called Happy Ever After – no, no, not the comedy with Terry Scott and June Whitfield – but a dram

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There cannot be many people under the age of 50 whose lives have not been in some way touched by the careers of Janet and Allan Ahlberg. The couple formed their hugely creative partnership in 1975, wi

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In the early 1940s, the Royal Mint replaced the familiar image of a portcullis on the threepenny coin with a thrift plant. This was part of the government’s campaign reminding the public of the need f