The name John Smith appears on tourism signs, ballot papers, and album covers – but the people behind it could hardly be more different. From a 17th-century explorer who helped found Jamestown,…
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If you’ve seen Loki or Black Mirror‘s “San Junipero,” you’ve already felt the quiet intensity Gugu Mbatha-Raw brings to the screen. But her real story—the name, the training, the path from Oxford…
If you know David Baddiel, you probably know him as the comedian who co-wrote the football anthem “Three Lions” or as the author of children’s books that have sold over 1.5 million…
When a familiar voice from British morning television falls silent, it leaves a quiet space in millions of living rooms. John Stapleton, the genial journalist who reported from the streets of Oldham…
There’s a reason millions of viewers tune in to see Claudia Winkleman every week – she has a knack for making the serious feel light and the entertaining feel personal, but beyond…
Anyone who has watched a hobbit tiptoe past a Ringwraith knows the feeling of being pulled into another world. But the man behind those worlds has a story that goes far beyond…
There aren’t many kings whose reign is remembered for piety rather than conquest, but Edward the Confessor is one of them. The last Anglo-Saxon king of England, he ruled for 24 years…
There aren’t many people who can turn a trip to buy worming medicine into a headline, but Daisy May Cooper has never been one for a quiet life. From co-creating one of…
Few denim styles spark as much debate as low-rise jeans. Some love the Y2K nostalgia, others remember the muffin-top era. Whatever your take, the low-rise silhouette is back in a big way…
Few actors have carried a role that defines them as thoroughly as Jim Caviezel carried the role of Jesus Christ, and two decades after The Passion of the Christ, he stepped back…