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Sit yourself down in a chair. Bend your left leg over your right. While keeping your back straight, scratch the end of your nose with...

“Is it original?” the member of the film crew asked me. “Yes. It’s a letter he wrote to his mother. One of about a thousand that...

There has been a lot of comment over the last few days following The Telegraph’s revelations that Puffin books have “revised” Roald Dahl...

One of the charms of rural Britain is the number of relatively unspoilt market towns that litter the hinterlands of the great cities.

After a few years in the provinces, I was again struggling round London’s theatrical foothills, doing some work in the drama schools...