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‘It’s a national reclamation’: the 12-year festival bringing Samuel Beckett back to Ireland

The playwright has long been considered one of the country’s most famous exports, but not an ‘Irish writer’. An ambitious new season of plays explores his complex relationship with his homeland – and tickets are already on sale for 2036

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TV’s best relationships of 2026 (so far)

Sometimes the perfect folks to turn to when we need to feel better are the ones on our TV screens

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‘I snogged somebody for nine hours today’: Stage Kiss actors reveal what it’s really like kissing a co-star

THEATRE: ‘Stage Kiss’ follows two actors as they rekindle their past romance after being cast as leads in a play – but just how messy can playing lovers on stage get in reality? Its stars, MyAnna Buring and Patrick Kennedy, kiss and tell with Lauren Morris

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‘Museum of Failure’ set to arrive in UK showcasing some of the wackiest product fails ever made

The temporary museum is slated to arrive in the UK sometime in 2026

The Independent UK

The Titanic, Sinclair C5 and Brexit: the Museum of Failure is coming to the UK

Exhibition of design flops should suit British sense of humour, says its founder, but also shows failure is a part of learning

The Guardian - UK

Timothy West and Prunella Scales’ son says he is not sure who he is without them

Actor Samuel West lost his father in November 2024 followed by his mother, the Fawlty Towers actress, who died last month aged 93.

Evening Standard

Prunella Scales’ son thankful for ‘great outpouring of love’ after both his parents die within a year

‘We’re meant to bury our parents, aren’t we? We might as well do two in a year, the practice is kind of useful,’ Samuel West jokingly reflected

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Samuel West touched by ‘outpouring of love’ for Prunella Scales

Actor West said his mother Scales’ acting career means she can still be watched ‘at all times of her life’, after her death last month.

Evening Standard

Prunella Scales last had a 'proper conversation' with son in 2023

Samuel West spoke about the last time he had a "proper conversation" with his late mom, actress Prunella Scales, in a podcast interview - recorded before her death on Monday (27.10.25).

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Samuel West is ‘very sad’ his late parents will not see his upcoming project

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Prunella Scales’ son shares sad realisation after mother’s death

Scales, best known for her role as Sybil in Fawlty Towers, died almost a year after her husband, Timothy West

The Independent UK

Prunella Scales’ son ‘sad’ she won’t see him star in Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night

Samuel West said his mother died a day after what would have been her 62nd wedding anniversary to Timothy West.

Evening Standard

Prunella Scales was a queen of comedy with a passion for classical theatre

The actor best known as TV’s Sybil Fawlty dazzled over five decades on stage, in roles from from Shakespeare to Alan Bennett

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Prunella Scales death: Fawlty Towers actor dies aged 93

Actor was best known for playing the bossy wife to John Cleese’s eccentric hotelier Basil Fawlty in the acclaimed BBC sitcom

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Prunella Scales will forever be known as the long-suffering wife of Basil Fawlty

Although she was regularly cast in comic roles, her abilities ranged far more widely than that – she even appeared in opera.

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34yo woman dies after trying to stop her dogs fighting over a chicken nugget

The woman's seemingly innocent act led to her tragic death.

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Essex woman killed by own dog in freak chicken nugget accident

Michelle Hempstead’s dog was a ‘gentle giant’ who normally slept on her bed

Evening Standard

Mother was fatally bitten by her dog as her two pets fought over food – inquest

Michelle Hempstead was taken to hospital but died the next day at the Royal London Hospital.

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Slow Horses author compares ‘bogeyman’ character Peter Judd to Boris Johnson

Writer attended Balliol College, Oxford at the same time as the former Tory leader

The Guardian - UK

Brighton Rock by Graham Greene audiobook review – Sam West captures the menace of this modern classic

The seaside town’s seedy underbelly is vividly evoked in this timeless tale of murder, romance and revenge

The Guardian - UK

Holy Krapp! Gary Oldman and Stephen Rea unspool Beckett’s masterpiece about memory

Krapp’s Last Tape, in which an old man rummages through recordings of his younger self, is back for two star-powered revivals. This haunting play invites actors and audiences to reconnect with their past

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All Creatures Great and Small's Samuel West reveals exciting update

The countdown is on for the new series

The Guardian - UK

Diaries at the ready: Samuel West lined up to star in Beckett play... in 2036

In a world first, the actor will feature with a recording of his younger self in the time-lapse drama Krapp’s Last Tape

The Guardian - UK

‘National catastrophe’: drama school funding crisis in England sparks concern

Actors Samuel West and Paapa Essiedu join calls for urgent action to protect and expand access to arts

The Guardian - UK

Twelfth Night review – Samuel West achieves greatness as Malvolio

As the petty tyrant cruelly duped by his household West leads a superb, tinsel-inflected take on Shakespeare’s melancholy comedy

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