Nancy Astor
Woman's Hour is depressing and retrograde
When Jane Garvey announced to the audience who had just ‘taken part’ in the 70th birthday celebrations of Radio 4’s…
How to suck up in society — with the Cunards, the Corrigans and the Colefaxes
A more appropriate subtitle to this homage to the queen bees of the interwar years might have been ‘How to…
Close encounters on the starship Enterprise
For a show with a self-proclaimed ‘five-year mission’, Star Trek hasn’t done badly. Gene Roddenberry’s ‘Wagon train to the stars’…
David Astor: the saintly, tormented man who remade the Observer
Before embarking on this book, Jeremy Lewis was told by his friend Diana Athill that his subject, the newspaper editor…
Love nest or den of iniquity? Cliveden has always been shrouded in mystery and scandal
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Charlie Chaplin, monster
No actual birth certificate for Charles Spencer Chaplin has ever been found. The actor himself drew a blank when he…
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