Nancy Astor
Woman's Hour is depressing and retrograde
Kate Chisholm 15 October 2016 9:00 am
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
Frances Wilson 10 September 2016 9:00 am
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
Bob Fischer 5 March 2016 9:00 am
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
Andrew Lycett 5 March 2016 9:00 am
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
Frances Wilson 18 July 2015 9:00 am
Well, you can’t say he wasn’t warned. Swimming pools, Nancy Astor told her son, Bill, were ‘disgustin’. I don’t trust…
Charlie Chaplin, monster
Roger Lewis 12 April 2014 9:00 am
No actual birth certificate for Charles Spencer Chaplin has ever been found. The actor himself drew a blank when he…
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