Stephen Fry has been named as the curator of an annual opera festival. The actor and comedian will take the helm at this year’s Deloitte Ignite festival which will explore the work of composers Verdi and Wagner.
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Boy aged 16 dies in village 'shooting'
Monday 11 March 2013
A teenage boy has died after a reported gun incident in a quiet village.
DVD review: Great Expectations
Sunday 24 February 2013
Unlike the recent, more daring deconstructions of Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights, Mike Newell's Great Expectations is close to being a scene-by-scene translation of the novel.
Tory MP warned of powerful paedophile ring 30 years ago
Friday 22 February 2013
New evidence supports claim former backbencher’s life was threatened
Trafficker jailed for using Polish workers as slaves
Friday 22 February 2013
A “physical and mental bully” has been jailed for six years and three months for trafficking four men to the UK and exploiting them to work as slaves.
Dickens' house opens for Christmas after revamp
Saturday 22 December 2012
The London townhouse where Charles Dickens penned "Oliver Twist" and fathered two of his 10 children has just reopened after a 3.1 million pound ($5 million) facelift as the climax of the bicentenary of his birth.
Boyd Tonkin: The Dickens bicentenary was a festival of British hypocrisy
Saturday 22 December 2012
The Week in Books
IoS exhibition review: Charles Dickens Museum, Doughty Street, London
Sunday 16 December 2012
A tale of two houses, neither one bleak
Malton residents raise £27,000 to 'bring home' signed copy of A Christmas Carol
Tuesday 11 December 2012
Charles Dickens' festive ghost story is thought to be partially inspired by the North Yorkshire town
Charles Dickens' London home to reopen to the public after £3.1 million revamp
Tuesday 04 December 2012
The Bloomsbury-based property has been stripped of as many modern features as possible and filled with the writer's possessions
Havisham, By Ronald Frame
Saturday 03 November 2012
To reimagine a dark star of classic fiction is a daring move, but one that yields mixed results
What’s it like to climb Europe’s tallest building?
Friday 26 October 2012
As the 314m Shard opens to sightseers (for £25 a time) Tom Peck tests the lifts – and his nerve
The Streets, By Anthony Quinn
Saturday 06 October 2012
A thrilling story of deprivation that shows off the bravura versatility of its author
Dickens tops chart as classic tales remain a hit with parents
Monday 20 August 2012
A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens' 1843 classic in which the stingy Ebenezer Scrooge discovers the generous Christmas spirit, is the book parents most want to pass on to their children, according to a new poll.
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