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TV & radio reviews: Radio reviews: Moira Stuart’s Jazz Guitarists; I Can’t Stand Up for Falling Down 27 Aug 2013 | 04:38 pm
Thanks to the inspired move to recruit Moira Stuart on to the BBC Radio 2 Breakfast Show team back in 2010, the station has also benefited from making use of her talents elsewhere. Following on from ...
News: Hollyoaks criticised for violent pre-watershed scene 27 Aug 2013 | 04:26 pm
Channel 4 series Hollyoaks has been censured for an episode that featured a “violent and shocking” scene, which Ofcom has ruled broke its broadcasting code. The ruling has prompted a warning from the...
News: West End actor Gerard Murphy dies 27 Aug 2013 | 04:18 pm
Actor and director Gerard Murphy has died from prostate cancer at the age of 52. His agent Lynda Ronan said he died at home yesterday after “battling courageously with cancer for two and a half years...
Business News: Edinburgh Fringe reports record ticket sales, but average attendance down 27 Aug 2013 | 02:59 pm
The Edinburgh Festival Fringe has closed its most successful year with a record 1,943,493 tickets issued, up 4.6% on 2012 – and 3.5% up on the previous record in 2011. The figures do not include atte...
News: Comedian Mike Winters dies aged 82 27 Aug 2013 | 02:26 pm
Mike Winters, the straight man to his brother, Bernie, in the comedy double act, Mike and Bernie Winters, has died at the age of 82. The brothers were pioneers of television comedy, first appearing i...
TV & radio reviews: TV review: Chickens; Big School 27 Aug 2013 | 01:30 pm
Is everyone who took part in the First World War dead? Good, let’s desecrate their sufferings and sacrifices with a rubbish sitcom. I was really looking forward to Chickens, Sky1’s take on British co...
Shenton's View: Only you, you’re the only one I’ll see forever 27 Aug 2013 | 11:00 am
I’ve confessed before to being a serial repeater, particularly for pleasure rather than duty, when there’s a show I particularly like. Just last week I was admitting here, too, to going to see the cur...
Arts funding: Where are all the women? 26 Aug 2013 | 02:00 pm
Of all walks of life, you would expect the liberal arts to be notable for its lack of glass ceilings, and at first sight there are accomplished woman at the head of national arts organisations. Jude ...
News: Theatre Ad Infinitum wins second Stage Award 26 Aug 2013 | 01:00 am
Theatre Ad Infinitum has been named the best ensemble at this year’s Stage Awards for Acting Excellence at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, marking the second time the company has been recognised within...
News: Bridget Christie wins best comedy show at Foster’s Edinburgh Comedy Awards 24 Aug 2013 | 08:18 pm
Bridget Christie has won the best comedy show prize at this year’s Foster’s Edinburgh Comedy Awards. She won for her show A Bic for Her, which has been running at the Stand Comedy Club. Christie was...
