Casting a spell

So we’re back, for another “celebration of the mysterious, the miraculous and the downright weird” – but does our motorcycle-mad host the Reverend Lionel Fanthorpe have any new tricks up his sleeve in

My memories of living in Calgary, the Cowboy Capital of Western Canada, where I was born and lived until the age of five, are few and far between. Naturally, only the most significant moments of that

Chartarumludentist Anthony Wilkins [FT458:63] may wish to visit China. While living there in 2005 I found so many discarded playing cards on the ground that I was able to assemble a unique deck of 52

‘I ought to warn you, that if you haven’t read any of my stories, that you may be disturbed by some of the things which happen in them.” With this note of caution, author Roald Dahl began his brief in

Personal recollections of cherished sci-fi and fantasy

Fawlty Towers: the Play Friday 9.00pm U&Gold