It’s cold, it’s dark and I’m crouched in a muddy ditch with Sam de Belle, who couldn’t be happier as she hides in silence from a border collie.
Sam is one of a group of volunteers at Swaledale Mountain Rescue, known as “dogsbodies”, who help…
Category: 5. Entertainment
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Max Walker-Silverman discusses his new film, ‘Rebuilding’
ROB SCHMITZ, HOST:
Wildfires have remade the West in the past few years – the people, the communities, the whole landscape. Now a film named “Rebuilding” shows what is left behind after the fire is out and…
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Pink Floyd's drummer Nick Mason reflects on 50 years of 'Wish You Were Here' – NPR
- Pink Floyd’s drummer Nick Mason reflects on 50 years of ‘Wish You Were Here’ NPR
- ‘Harder work than almost any album we ever did’: Pink Floyd’s Wish You Were Here turns 50 The Guardian
- “A vicious takedown of the record industry and the…
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Martha Ackmann discusses her new book on the life of the iconic Dolly Parton : NPR
NPR’s Rob Schmitz talks to author Martha Ackmann about her new book on “American icon” Dolly Parton and the ambition it took the young Tennessean to reach success.
ROB SCHMITZ, HOST:
In 1959,…
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Blue plaque to be unveiled for Guernsey artist David Robilliard
A blue plaque to honour the life of a gay artist and poet is set to be unveiled later in Guernsey.
David Robilliard, born in the island in 1952, had his artwork displayed in both national and international gallery collections including the Tate…
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Rydal pub’s missing Bertie the Badger mascot returns home
A pub’s badger mascot that went missing when it accompanied staff on a Christmas night out has been returned.
Staff from the the Badger Bar in Rydal in the Lake District took their beloved Bertie the Badger with them to the White Lion Hotel in…
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Fewer characters on TV had abortions in 2025 — and more stories reinforced shame : NPR
Abby Ryder Fortson portrayed Kristi Wheeler, a teen who came into the hospital for a medication abortion, on The Pitt.
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MoAD caps 20th anniversary celebration
Since its opening in 2005, the signature image of the Museum of the African Diaspora has been photographer Chester Higgins’s “The Girl from Ghana,” a three-story photomosaic covering the wall along the museum’s main…
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Pope: At Christmas, let music be a ‘dwelling place for the soul’
Pope Leo meets with artists and organisers involved in the Vatican’s Christmas Concert, saying that the festive period reminds us that God comes to meet us “at the very heart of our small human stories.”
By Vatican News
For 33…
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Council leaders have a ball at this year’s panto.
Cinderella was joined by her ugly sisters and some other special guests as the curtain rose on our premier performance of Cinderella.
Chairman of West Lindsey District Council, Cllr Matt Boles and Vice Chairman, Cllr John Barrett added an extra…
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