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Look who’s talking
Richard Osley catches up with ventriloquist Nina Conti as she gets
her act together for the Edinburgh Fringe
I MADE several mistakes the morning I met Nina Conti, the ventriloquist daughter of actor Tom. Whoops, there’s another one, mentioning the famous Dad in the first sentence before we’ve even got on to her own... > more |
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The fast comedian behind Young Bond - CHARLIE Higson spent formative comic time with Harry Enfield on the appropriately named Merryville Estate in Hackney. > more
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SPECIAL - BLOOMSBURY FESTIVAL |
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Virginia’s paper round in the park - IT is easy to forget that Virginia Woolf, the writer seen as one of the lynchpins of the Bloomsbury set and a standard-bearer... > more
The changing face of The Brunswick Centre - THE Brunswick Centre has become an iconic example of modernist building design. > more |
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Picasso’s little-known animal period unveiled - PICASSO’S painting of his lover, Dora Maar and her Cat, sold at auction in New York earlier this year for a... > more
Keeping the spirit alive - TWENTY-TWO years ago, Erwin James was sentenced to life imprisonment at the Old Bailey for a crime he has never discussed. > more
Secrets of Prunella's lunchtime monologues - IT is hard to think of Prunella Scales without conjuring up images of Basil’s shrewish wife Sybil in the classic... > more |
