Filming locations: Downton Abbey v. Brideshead Revisited

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They are both magnificent stately homes which became world famous thanks to the success of a television costume drama. But it is the setting for the 1981 smash hit Brideshead Revisited and not the current ratings winner Downton Abbey that has made it...

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Death Comes To Pemberley filmed at Castle Howard (Yorkshire)

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BBC Death Comes to Pemberley The BBC's adaptation of PD James' best selling novel, Death Comes to Pemberley was filmed at Castle Howard, for two weeks during July 2013. Starring Matthew Rhys, Anna Maxwell-Martin, Matthew Goode and Jenna Louise Coleman,...

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Filming locations: Castle Howard (Yorkshire)

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Castle Howard On Film Since the 1960s, Castle Howard has been used as a location for many film and television productions. The house, the beautiful grounds and wider estate are all ideal settings for costume dramas, feature films and documentaries. These...

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BBC News celebrates its 60th birthday

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BBC News today celebrates its 60th birthday. The first ever news bulletin was transmitted at 7:30pm on July 5th 1954 - and was a very different affair from the 24-hour rolling news channel we can watch today. The news began as a 22-minute programme, starting...

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BBC Television News celebrates 60 years

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BBC Television News is 60 years old at 7.30pm on 5 July 2014. Over the past six decades, BBC Television News has reported on all the landmark news stories and pivotal moments from the first man on the moon, Churchill’s resignation, the assassination of...

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Capes 2014: North & South, E. Gaskell

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The next afternoon, about twenty miles from Milton-Northern, they entered on the little branch railway that led to Heston. Heston itself was one long straggling street, running parallel to the seashore. It had a character of its own, as different from...

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Game of Thrones author, George RR Martin, in Dijon for a book signing

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Photo credit: Nicolas Rouillard L'écrivain américain George R. R. Martin, auteur de la saga du Trône de fer, laquelle a été déclinée à l'écran sous le nom de Game of Thrones, est arrivé à Dijon ce mercredi. Il a été accueilli par le maire de Dijon Alain...

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Sherlock will be back sooner than expected

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The last series saw Sherlock’s life change a lot - he returned from the dead, his best friend John Watson married Mary Morstan and he met his match in Charles Augustus Magnussen. After the briefest of exiles, Sherlock came back only to face one of his...

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