BBC’s Newscast is taking on a bold challenge for BBC Children in Need: a 25-hour non-stop podcast-a-thon, streaming live on BBC Sounds and BBC iPlayer.
Beginning at 8am on Thursday 13 November straight through to 9am on Friday 14 November, the…

BBC’s Newscast is taking on a bold challenge for BBC Children in Need: a 25-hour non-stop podcast-a-thon, streaming live on BBC Sounds and BBC iPlayer.
Beginning at 8am on Thursday 13 November straight through to 9am on Friday 14 November, the…

The World Rookie Tour expands with the launch of the World Rookie Street Tour: a fresh urban series for freeskiers and snowboarders, created in collaboration with Rock A Rail.
The World Rookie Street Tour is here! And it’s bringing a…

Having been declared world record holders, the massed pipers played “Happy Birthday” on request, followed by an impromptu “Amazing Grace” to a cheering crowd, many using their phones to record the moment.
The Australian Book of Records,…

Sunderland Music CityThe search is on to find about 200 pianists to take part in a concert aiming to set a new world record.
Sunderland Music City is looking for…

Lily Allen’s West End Girl continues to permeate pop culture. One of the most well received and celebrated albums of the year, it’s a raw yet rollicking documentation of the breakdown of her marriage to Stranger Things actor David Harbour,…

A young German man with Down syndrome, who chooses not to speak, and a Japanese tourist on a journey of his own cross paths in Germany and go on a journey together, forming an unexpected bond that goes beyond words. That is the set-up for The…

For Cindy Zhong, like many young Chinese women, a relaxing night used to mean curling up with a steamy story about two men in love. Then her favorite authors, and their tales, started disappearing.
Fans of the popular Danmei same-sex romance…

For one of Victorian literature’s most distinctive voices, who was once hailed as a genius by Oscar Wilde, very little has been known about Amy Levy for more than a century.
But audiences will now have the opportunity to become more deeply…

Hilary Mantel’s controversial story imagining the murder of Margaret Thatcher in the summer of 1983 is to be staged next year in Liverpool.
The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher – August 6th 1983 was published in the Guardian in 2014 and gave…

Once a humble app feature, Letterboxd’s Four Favourites has mutated into our era’s cinematic confession booth. Users choose (and can endlessly reshuffle) their top four films on their profile, while clips of celebrities and civilians alike…