Unsure what to sip during your lockdown quiz? Our wine expert gives his tips from Pilsner beers to simple cocktails and fizz, whites and rosés By Olly Smith Event for The Mail on Sunday Published: 11:39 BST, 11 May 2020 | Updated: 11:39 BST, 11 May 2020 My wife is wearing an orange wig, beaming … Read more
Russian scientists suggest the mysterious ‘Tunguska event’ explosion of 1908 was caused by an iron asteroid that entered the Earth’s atmosphere and then bounced back into space. The flying asteroid is thought to have skimmed the planet at a low altitude above Siberia, causing an explosion that flattened around 80 million trees over an area … Read more
Austrian wines are of wonderful value for the quality that’s on offer and have been great for so long… so why are they not household names by now? By Olly Smith Event for The Mail on Sunday Published: 22:00 BST, 23 April 2020 | Updated: 22:27 BST, 23 April 2020 I’ve been banging the drum … Read more
Violinist Daniel Hope’s Belle Epoque album is full of beautiful music from the socially turbulent period and will bring rich rewards to the curious By David Mellor for Event Published: 00:00 BST, 25 April 2020 | Updated: 00:00 BST, 25 April 2020 Daniel Hope … Read more
From Robert Webb’s first novel to the latest from Adele Parks, The Portrait by Ilaria Bernardini and Stephanie Scott’s debut, this week’s best new fiction By Anthony Cummins and Annie Marks and Hephzibah Anderson and Eithne Farry For Event Magazine Published: 22:00 BST, 25 April 2020 | Updated: 22:00 BST, 25 April 2020 Come Again … Read more
DEBORAH ROSS: If you like violence, you’ll love this. Me? No thanks… By Deborah Ross for Event magazine Published: 22:01 BST, 25 April 2020 | Updated: 22:01 BST, 25 April 2020 Gangs Of London Thursday, Sky Atlantic Rating: Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins Monday, Channel 4 Rating: The gangster drama Gangs Of London opens audaciously … Read more
From Katherine Ryan: Telling Everybody Everything to The High Low and Tim Harford’s Cautionary Tales, this week’s top podcasts By Leaf Arbuthnot Published: 22:01 BST, 25 April 2020 | Updated: 22:01 BST, 25 April 2020 Katherine Ryan: Telling Everybody Everything Comedian Katherine Ryan admits to being a late adopter who didn’t think podcasts would take … Read more
Alexandra Shulman’s Clothes… And Other Things That Matter is a wry and candid part-memoir, part-fashion history, part-social commentary By Kate Finnigan Published: 22:01 BST, 25 April 2020 | Updated: 22:01 BST, 25 April 2020 Clothes… And Other Things That Matter Alexandra Shulman … Read more
Sunday, April 12 ‘Can you do 100 laps of your garden, Piers?’ read a tweet to me today from someone named Captain Tom Moore. I wasn’t sure what he was getting at until I discovered he’s a 99-year-old Second World War veteran who is walking 100 laps of HIS garden before his 100th birthday on … Read more
SKY/NOW TV, APPLE TV+ AND MORE Trying The streaming service’s first British series looks like being one of its best shows to date. The series’ pedigree is certainly impressive. Directed by Catastrophe helmer Jim O’Hanlon and written by former Mock The Week scribe Andy Wolton, the cast of Trying includes Rafe Spall, Esther Smith, Phil … Read more