Seventy years ago, radio history was made. At 2pm on 7 October 1946, the very first Woman’s Hour was broadcast on the BBC Light Programme. Every weekday thereafter, the hour-long magazine featured musical requests, listeners’ questions, a serial and “talks...
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Here they are – the cast of BBC1's latest period drama The Moonstone. Miranda's Sarah Hadland stars alongside Cold Feet actor John Thomson in the new version of Wilkie Collins' 1868 mystery, believed by many to be the first ever detective novel. Thomson...
Read moreSherlock fans: brace yourself. Benedict Cumberbatch just hinted the BBC detective drama could be reaching its natural end. Speaking to GQ magazine about the upcoming series of the show, Cumberbatch said it felt “complete” and like “the end of an era”....
Read moreCertain actors take the business of preparing for a role extremely seriously. For My Left Foot, Daniel Day-Lewis insisted on the crew pushing him around in a wheelchair between takes. Marlon Brando stuffed cotton-wool balls in his cheeks to play Vito...
Read moreThe titles of the first two new Sherlock episodes which will air in 2017 have been revealed. BBC One, which broadcasts the drama, confirmed the episodes will be called The Six Thatchers and The Lying Detective. Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman...
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It isn’t often I find myself identifying with the villain nowadays, but BBC’s 2012 two-part TV movie The Mystery of Edwin Drood had me examining my own past through the lens of this tale by Charles Dickens. This is the last story that Dickens ever wrote...
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EDWIN DROOD AND FRIENDS (OR ENEMIES?) Rosa Bud (Tamzin Merchant) Edwin’s beautiful teenage fiancée, whose intended marriage has been arranged by Rosa and Edwin’s fathers. Edwin Drood (Freddie Fox) A privileged, somewhat vain young man who plans to marry...
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The Mystery Of Edwin Drood is a Charles Dickens story about a choirmaster’s obsession with a beautiful young woman. But a different kind of obsession has developed since Dickens last put pen to paper on the novel 142 years ago: How should the story end?...
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