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HISTORICAL FACTS: 4 - The Untold Story

The memorial to a murdered boy and his grieving mother - battered by the elements, but still standing on the bleak moors

Some 58 years after Keith Bennett's death, there is renewed hope he might be found and finally laid to rest

Manchester Evening News

Moors murderer Ian Brady may have been using victims' burial sites to 'create swastika'

Author Russell Edwards believes Moors murderer Ian Brady may have been trying to create a Swastika with the burial sites of his victims that was never finished

Daily Mirror

Brother of Moors murder victim Keith Bennett speaks out as police dig in new search

Alan Bennett, the brother of the 12-year-old Moors murder victim Keith Bennett, said police have not yet found his siblings' remains as part of a new dig in moorland

Daily Mirror

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Police dig for Moors Murders victim Keith Bennett as reports of skull found after 58 years

"We are at the very early stages of assessing the evidence which he brought to our attention"

Manchester Evening News

The Clothes They Stood Up In review – Alan Bennett tale dressed to impress

Adrian Scarborough stars in his own adaptation of Bennett’s story, featuring convincing new dialogue and staged with visual panache

The Guardian - UK

For many of our best creatives, the Queen was the ace in the pack

“I could see she was a good card to have in my hand,” director Stephen Frears told me when I interviewed him about The Queen, his 2006 film starring Helen Mirren as the monarch, adjusting to the aftermath of Princess Diana’s death. Yet neither he nor the movie’s writer Peter…

Evening Standard

Allelujah review – Judi Dench stars in sweet but slight Alan Bennett hospital drama

Toronto film festival: A-listers are tended to by formidable nurse Jennifer Saunders in Richard Eyre’s adaptation of the 2018 play about a struggling geriatric hospital

The Guardian - UK

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Queen Elizabeth’s reign was one of fortitude and faith

While the empire slipped away, society swung and privacy withered, she was steadfast, putting duty above all else

The Guardian - UK

On stage and when we met at the theatre, the Queen was a figure of quiet wisdom and humour

The monarch was sympathetically depicted by dramatists and at a 1999 production of Oklahoma! her eyes lit up when she recalled her own theatrical outings

The Guardian - UK

What to see at the 66th BFI London Film Festival - our pick of the newly announced programme

It’s back and we couldn’t be more excited

Evening Standard

‘I want to do things I’ve never done’: The History Boys’ Samuel Barnett on his new one-man show

Making his fringe debut with a show about a troubled standup, the actor explains why he loves solo performance, his issues with The History Boys, and why this government’s days are numbered

The Guardian - UK

Cancelled culture comes back: the Edinburgh Festival turns 75, alive and well after two years of pandemic disruption

After two years of pandemic programming, with performers and audiences moved into virtual online venues, the Edinburgh International Festival celebrates its 75th anniversary this year with the best possible birthday present – the return of a full programme of live performances.

The Conversation

Vanessa Rosenthal obituary

Other lives: Actor and writer whose plays were broadcast on BBC radio and staged around the world

The Guardian - UK

Objectified, derided, demeaned: sexism is still rampant on stage in the era of #MeToo

From Jerusalem and Pretty Woman to a 70s Alan Bennett farce, unreconstructed attitudes and old-fashioned smut still permeate British theatre. And irony is not much of a defence

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‘He died in his 30s living the life he had dreamed of’: artist Eric Ravilious

He was the first war artist to die on active service – and one of the greatest. Now, a new film, featuring Alan Bennett and Ai Weiwei, uncovers his complicated life

The Guardian - UK

Story of doomed war artist Eric Ravilious told in new film

The official combat painter died in 1942 when his plane went down. Now his inspiring life story is the subject of a major documentary

The Guardian - UK

The Queen in culture: how art puts a public face to a private life

She has appeared in plays, novels, paintings – even love songs. From Andy Warhol to Alan Bennett, artists, writers and musicians have changed our picture of the Queen we think we know

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House Arrest: Pandemic Diaries by Alan Bennett review – typical Bennett on atypical times

The octogenarian playwright documents the baffling absurdities of lockdown with his usual flair

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Made in Oldham: The budding actors who became stars thanks to David Johnson

Tributes have poured in for the 'starmaker', who died this week

The Guardian - UK

Gavin Millar obituary

Film and television director and leading light of arts journalism in the 1960s and 70s

The Guardian - UK

Le crunch: Inside the 29 April Guardian Weekly

Macron on a mission. Plus: Alan Bennett’s glorious isolation.

The Guardian - UK

One Day I Shall Astonish the World by Nina Stibbe review – a droll take on female friendship

The Love, Nina author’s new novel has all its predecessors’ gossipy bookishness and quirky charm

The Guardian - UK

Nina Stibbe: ‘In fiction, female friendships are either ridiculously saintly or psychopathic’

The bestselling author of Love, Nina on her first non-autobiographical novel, the pros and cons of living in Cornwall, and never being the adult in the room

The Guardian - UK

Barry Cryer was cheeky, kind and a canny engineer of comedy

A generous-hearted jokesmith, Cryer created laughs for generations of comics, was a consummate performer and had a lifelong commitment to wit

Leeds Live

The childhood homes of Leeds' biggest stars including Kalvin Phillips and Mel B

The humble beginnings of the city's talents who conquered the world - this is where Nicola Adams, Corinne Bailey Rae, Kay Mellor and more called home

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