Category: Entertainment

At a time when women in the UK had achieved gender equality in many spheres, The Spice Girls came along to push […]

London-born Freda Lingstrom, OBE (1893-1989) was a pioneer of radio and television programming for pre-school children. She launched BBC radio’s ‘Listen with […]

John Eric Bartholomew (1926-84) from Morecambe and Ernest Wiseman (1925-99) from Leeds were Britain’s most successful comedic double act, Morecambe & Wise. […]

Boarding schools are a perfect setting for children’s fiction in which to celebrate the resilience, heroism and ingenuity of the younger generation. […]

Born in Yorkshire in 1934, Dame Judi Dench has spent almost all her working life as an actress and she is much […]

The world’s longest-running panel show is BBC Radio’s ‘Just A Minute’ (JAM), which first aired on 22nd December 1967. Parlour games used […]

Four teenage boys at a public school in Godalming formed a rock band in 1965 that would go on to have over […]

Making a stop-frame or stop-motion animation film is a painstaking, slow process, but Nick Parks, CBE, RDI (Royal Designer for Industry), had […]

Hammer Film Productions Ltd was formed in 1946, taking ‘Hammer’ from one of the owners of its parent company, who had taken […]

David Bowie, née Jones, (1947-2016) was an extraordinary songwriter and singer, musician, painter and actor of the 1970s-80s who became a cult […]