Worzel: pitchfork perfect

To mark 50 glorious years since the first of 12 pitch-perfect episodes of John Cleese and Connie Booth’s hilarious sitcom, Fawlty Towers , hit our TV screens, we pick out five favourite guest stars who checked in and made life miserable for the hotel’s hapless owner

When I was a child, we had a tortoise called Winnie who had belonged to my father when he was a boy in the 1950s. He called his pet Winston after Churchill, but this name had to be changed when he dis

The wisdom of Bertie Wooster

“Every time I go into some Midsomer Village it’s always the same thing. Blackmail, sexual-deviancy, suicide and murder. How could you possibly expect me to go live in one of them” – DCI Tom Barnaby We

It’s time to wrap up our rewatch of the second series of Fortean TV. And to think the unthinkable: are the zany graphics, Fanthorpe’s gnomic utterances and the surface level treatment of both the seri

Corn-dolly crafter Colette Hughes describes the bleak situations our ancestors faced. “Imagine,” she says. “It’s winter and your family is hungry and cold. It gets dark early, fresh food is in short s