“The only thing I was high on was life. I’m high on adrenaline. Honestly, you don’t need anything else in life” - Baroness (Floella) Benjamin, when asked if she had been tempted to take illegal substances during her Play School presenting days.Read
POET Simon Armitage will be reading from his latest book, Walking Home, at The Ted Hughes Theatre in Mytholmroyd – revealing the physical and emotional challenges he faced while tackling the 256 miles of the Pennine Way.Read
WHAT better way, musically speaking, to celebrate the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee than with a concert featuring work by the country’s most celebrated composers.Read
Author Joanne Harris tackles clashes of culture and religion in her latest novel. But, as she tells Hannah Stephenson, she’s not holding her breath for another movie starring Johnny DeppRead
“New York men just use women who make themselves too easily available on first dates. I find it disgusting that men expect sex on a first date and they often get it” - Actress Shirley Leigh-Wood Oakes.Read
THE Alan Plater masterpiece Close the Coalhouse Door was written in Sixties but remains as punchy and relevant today as it was when it was premiered.Read
