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The Three Musketeers in 3D - review

14.10.11
So here's your half-term movie, if it pours. And freezes. The Three Musketeers is eminently suitable viewing for eight to 12-year-olds. ... more

The London Snorkelling Team is seriously quirky

13.04.11
The London Snorkelling Team is a seriously quirky musical quartet, joined here by two animators and two comic cults... more

Two Ronnies’ raspberry meant for Goons

16.12.10
Script for The Phantom Raspberry Blower of Old London Town, a Two Ronnies sketch, shows it was originally meant to be a Goons comeback show... more

Daphne Todd: It's my job to find beauty in whatever I'm looking at

19.05.10
Artist Daphne Todd explains why after years of caring for her elderly mother she decided to paint a portrait of her on her deathbed.... more

My London: Paloma Faith

09.04.10
Singer Paloma Faith likes Hampstead Ponds at 1am and ballet in Dalston... more

The tickets that take us taxpayers for a costly ride

30.11.09
The late Spike Milligan once challenged a parking ticket on the grounds that a traffic warden had sneaked up and painted a double yellow line underneath his car while he wasn’t looking... more

Spike Milligan's Adolf Hitler shows a goon's mad war zone

28.07.09
Adolf Hitler: My Part in his Downfall is a delightful adaptation of Spike Milligan's books of war memoirs.... more

Cannes gets a peak at depraved London

14.05.09
A salacious snapshot of London life in the Sixties is being revealed to at Cannes this week.... more

Barrymore is comedian in torment

05.08.08
Surviving Spike is a perfectly pleasant hour and three quarters in the company of a deeply troubled comedian.... more

Former television star Michael Barrymore, with whisky his only friend

11.06.08
As he sat alone cradling a glass of whisky, Michael Barrymore cut a desolate figure. The former television star spent Monday evening slumped in a bar in Notting Hill, West London.... more

Part 2: The inside story of how Lord Snowdon's marriage to Princess Margaret turned into open war

01.06.08
Cannabis in his pocket. Sex drugs in the fridge. Lovers galore - and a wife who got 'cuddly' with his best friend. Told for the first time, biographer Anne de Courcy reveals the inside story behind Princess Margaret's marriage.... more

It's poetry, but not as we know it

14.12.07
Wandering on, tie askew, flies agape, Tim Key delivers poems about, among other things, goats, romantic rejection and David Blunkett.... more

Rising to the challenge

24.07.07
Peter Capaldi talks to Claire Allfree about his role in acclaimed political satire The Thick Of It and his latest project, a triple bill of absurdist plays.... more

Almost too much talent

13.07.07
Simon Munnery's 80-minute nostalgic retrospective perfectly summed up his enduring style - sublime wit hampered by haphazard execution, says Bruce Dessau.... more

Not so funny Ho-Ho

04.10.06
Director Karl Howman, best known for his Flash ads, can't make The Ho-Ho Club - an everyday tale of comic folk - shine, says Bruce Dessau.... more


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