Entertainment Category
Elton John
Sir Elton John, CBE, was born in 1947 in Middlesex and is an award-winning, record-breaking musical phenomenon.…
‘Come Dancing’
‘Come Dancing’ first appeared on British TV screens in 1949 ~ a time when people were ready…
Cropredy
Cropredy is a village in Oxfordshire which plays host every August to a music festival also simply…
‘The Family’
Reality TV, the docu-soap and the fly-on-the-wall documentary can all thank the BBC’s 1974 television programme ‘The…
Dame Margot Fonteyn
Born in Surrey in 1919 as Margaret Hookham, Dame Margot Fonteyn‘s mother was key to her future…
The Beatles
The Beatles were a musical phenomenon in the 1960s that changed the pop music genre forever. There…
The BRIT Awards
The BRIT Awards were first devised for the year of the Queen’s Silver Jubilee (25 years on…
Brian Blessed
A force of nature, Yorkshireman Brian Blessed (1936-) is an actor on stage and screen, a voiceover…
‘The Mousetrap’
‘The Mousetrap’, written by Agatha Christie (1890-1976) from Devon, is the world’s longest-running play. It opened in…
Hot Air Ballooning
It was the French who invented hot air balloons in 1783 and they soon brought one over…
Pantomimes
Pantomimes are a very British part of the Christmas season. They are theatrical shows, featuring current celebrities,…
Conkers
Conkers is an old, traditional game that used to be played by schoolchildren (and sometimes adults), but…