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Recently, the broadcasting and streaming arm of ITV – what we used to know as a channel – was bought lock, stock and barrel by Sky. ITV Studios, the programme-making part of ITV, is set to become a separate, standalone listed company. In...
Miriam Margolyes knows she provokes strong reactions. “I’m Marmite,” the 85-yearold actress tells me, sitting in her shady courtyard garden in Clapham, south London. “I’m someone who simply tells the truth and it’s not always welcome. I think...
If community is dead, then the phenomenon of Great British festival fever really does need investigating. Opportunities to witness humanity at our convivial best, rather than polarised, fractious worst, may feel thin on the ground — but...
Is there a snobbish prejudice against brass bands? Some say the figures prove it. Last year, the Conservative MP Esther McVey revealed that in the three-year period to 2025 opera houses received seven times more funding from Arts Council...
