HISTORICAL FACTS: 4 - The Untold Story

Moors murder: Keith Bennett’s brother voices frustration over search

Alan Bennett says he has been left ‘confused’ by author’s claims to have found body after dig yields no results

The Guardian - UK · Oct 2, 2022

Police yet to find remains of Moors murder victim Keith Bennett in dig

Amateur sleuth claims to have come across the body of the boy murdered by Ian Brady and Myra Hindley

The Guardian - UK · Oct 1, 2022

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 · Oct 1, 2022

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 · Sep 13, 2022

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 · Sep 10, 2022

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 · Sep 10, 2022

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 · Sep 9, 2022

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 · Sep 1, 2022

‘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 · Aug 16, 2022

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 · Aug 4, 2022