75 stories by "Maggie Brown"
Nothing beats the experience of a live event. It's the unique selling point of theatre, though easy to forget. Last week I
As a member of BAFTA, I have recently spent more time in its Piccadilly cinema and my local than at any time
As the bongs announcing the new year sounded, it seemed fitting to mutter a toast to the ending of the BBC charter,
At a TV conference, a senior executive speculated about a drop of two million in the TV audience from November 4-6, which coincided with the
I spent a fruitful hour or so the other day sipping coffee with Kenton Allen, the celebrated comedy producer, whose company, Big
By an odd coincidence, news that Channel 4 had pinched the Great British Bake Off was delivered to me in a series
It was 7am on a sparkling morning and I was off to the BBC for a jolly interview about why young people
One of the most enjoyable television shows of my summer has to be Versailles, with its delicious mix of fabulous costumes, gardens
Feeling dazed by the ongoing crisis and the evidence that so many millions feel excluded from metropolitan London I picked up a
With Versailles romping away on BBC2, it seems timely to alert costume drama fans " and make-up and costume artists in particular
While the BBC waits anxiously for the Whittingdale lash of the charter renewal white paper, and its senior levels seethe with dissent,
How many ways are there to celebrate Shakespeare's 400th anniversary? My inbox brims with initiatives, from a device offering his best quotes
My best outing in recent weeks was to Bristol Old Vic Theatre School's highly original production of The Tempest at the Redgrave
Actors are well versed in the regular changes of regimes that take place across Theatreland, as directors move on and new artistic
While praise is heaped on great performances in War and Peace, spare a thought for actor Kieran Bew. He's the burly warrior lead in Beowulf:
While writing the obituary of Radio 4 announcer Peter Donaldson, whose voice had been part of so many people's morning routines, it
The other day I watched Peter Bazalgette, sporting a virtual reality headset, learning the secret behind a TV magic trick, making a
When George Osborne was forcing the BBC to take the £750 million hit from free licence fees for the over-75s two months
In August 2002, I attended a perplexing event. It was the recording of what would turn out to be the final series
What is the best way for creatives to respond to the BBC Charter renewal? Or to put it another way, was the
You could call it the Poldark moment. ITV has recently ramped up purchases of independent producers, to buttress its studios division and
At this time of year, huge black stag beetles fly out of the greenery surrounding my garden. And this sight popped into
I am not a member of that endangered species called critics. But on election night I was anchored to my sofa till
We've been seeing a lot of farewells across the arts, from Nicolas Hytner's smooth handover and Kevin Spacey's magnificent sing song at
While the Jeremy Clarkson drama played out, I was obsessively reading the new official BBC history, Pinkoes and Traitors, dealing with the
