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

SFX’s time machine hurls us back to a random month once again

BACK IN THE BAND WE PREDICT A RIOT ...

I’ve been very lucky in that, for most of my life, I have known what I wanted to do, job-wise. Not exactly born with the knowledge, but laser-focused on it once I realised, some time in the mid-’80s,

→ When John Logie Baird demonstrated the first working television set in 1926, a theatre impresario was so worried about the impact on the West End that he offered the scientist £1,000 to throw his de

Chris Hallam goes beyond the counter to explore what went on behind the scenes in Open All Hours , which celebrates its 50th anniversary this month