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June Spencer, long-time star of The Archers, dies at 105

The actor joined the original cast of the BBC radio drama in 1950 to play multiple roles including Peggy Woolley, whom she made her own. She retired from the show in 2022June Spencer, the long-time star of the BBC radio drama The Archers, has died at 105.A statement said she died peacefully in her sleep in the early hours of Friday. “Her family would...

Fri Nov 8, 2024 16:40
Ballet Black: Heroes review – double bill explores everyday heroism and the purgatory of daily life

Linbury theatre, London Sophie Laplane’s If at First switches so fast stylistically that it might be garbled, while Mthuthuzeli November’s The Waiting Game stages an existential crisisSophie Laplane’s new ballet, If at First, is more like 10 different ballets in one. It has a soundtrack that skips wildly between genres – Beethoven to avant jazz to new...

Fri Nov 8, 2024 16:40
Mud in their blood: the wild world of mud bombing

Mud trials showcase heavily modified two-wheel drive cars built to withstand violent impacts as drivers navigate a series of muddy obstaclesOn Sunday afternoon in the usually quiet New South Wales village of Pallamallawa, the air vibrates with the roar of V8 engines as colourful cars speed toward deep, muddy trenches at 80km/h. In an instant, mud explodes...

Fri Nov 8, 2024 16:40
The Tales of Hoffmann review – fun, carnivalesque staging goes to the dark side

Royal Opera House, London Damiano Michieletto’s production of Offenbach’s opéra fantastique is full of warped wit and devilish touches with a fine cast bringing this colourful fever-dream to lifeA huge eyeball in the wall of a classroom suddenly starts to swivel. A top-hatted man on stilts lurches into a bar and performs slow, ungainly circuits before...

Fri Nov 8, 2024 16:40
‘A whirlwind of sexual emotion’: the rude, raucous return of one of TV’s funniest romances

From extremely awkward sex scenes to addictive 10-minute episodes that have left fans accosting the stars in the street, Cheaters is a romcom like no other. As season two looms, the cast talk about nudity, orgasm faces and Prince HarryIt was the vase moment that did it. The first series of short-form romcom Cheaters truly took off when undersexed Zack,...

Fri Nov 8, 2024 15:42
A Game of Thrones movie may be coming – but do we really need it?

With multiple prequel shows already in production – and George RR Martin showing no signs of finishing his book series – what can a Thrones movie really add to the franchise? Spoiler alert – discusses ending of Game of ThronesIf we’ve learned anything from the tortuous final episodes of Game of Thrones, it’s that nothing quite unites humanity like...

Fri Nov 8, 2024 15:42

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