Before we take you through a colourful discussion between the connection between disability and Wicked the musical, which is currently touring the UK, allow us to tangle you up in a cyclone and guide you back to the black and white background behind the play’s history.
ITV’s Text Santa appeal raised £5.1 million for UK charities last December. The money was shared between worthwhile causes across the country, but the broadcaster is now launching an investigation to find out where some of the cash went.
From 7pm tonight (17 October) the original host of Big Brother, everybody’s favourite spectacle chat show host and television’s most famous doctor join forces for an evening of fund raising activity which will support Cancer Research UK.
Despite the benefit cuts, the bullying and the barriers they face on a daily basis disabled people in UK are much better than those who take centre role in tonight’s Channel 4 documentary.
It hasn’t taken BBC3 long to snap up the rights for a documentary related to the Oscar Pistorius trial. The final verdict was heard last Friday and now, just three days later the Beeb are going to broadcast the truth behind the court cases – hence its title.
Are you single and looking for love? Do you have a physical, sensory or other impairment or a long term condition and want to meet the person of your dreams?
Last year festival organiser Melvin Benn took a bold yet valiant decision booking Foals as a headline act for Latitude. The Oxford indie rockers, despite failing to reach a top twenty chart position stole the festival in 2013. In fact this very reviewer regretted covering Kraftwork – who played on the Saturday – instead of reviewing Yannis Philippakis’s genre-covering band which casts its wide abstract net to fish in those attracted to dance-punk, math rock, alternative music as well asbeing filed under the indie category.
Last weekend the film world lost an icon. Actor and director Richard Attenborough passed away aged 90. This morning his son revealed how his father coped with a disability over the past six years leading up to his death.
The announcement for which two acts would be co-headlining a night at Reading and Leeds this year was teased by an image of two playing cards - A King and a Queen. When the cryptic message was un-puzzled it was clear that the organisers had once again come up ’trumps’ and that we would be reviewing the Queens of The Stone Age when the final weeks of summer started to bring the festival season to a close.
Musharaf Asghar became the star of last year’s Educating Yorkshire series last year. The schoolboy battled with a severe stammer although as the term unfolded so did the words from his mouth.
In today’s society advice is on hand for those coping with mental illness. The conditions which fall under the health condition umbrella are now widely recognised as symptoms which need to be addressed, although as a new two-part documentary shows there was a lack of awareness and understanding for patients back in the Victorian era.
The following words which open the next sentence may come to a bit of a shock to you, but hear us out. Justin Timberlake dances like a guy in a nightclub who is trying to impress the girls...Bear with us!...He flaps his hands in the air, casually flicks his jacket, plays invisible drums...On the dancefloor this may be the signs of one too many Bacardi Breezers, but it’s JT and it just goes to show the Memphis star can do just about bloody anything and it will be cool.
On Monday the entertainment world lost one of its finest actors.
