Eighties pop is best music genre for reducing anxiety, study reveals 

Eighties pop is the best musical genre for reducing blood pressure, due to its ‘positive nostalgia’, researchers have found.   Turkish researchers hooked up 1,540 volunteers aged between 18 and 65 to blood pressure and heart rate monitors and played them a variety of music on Spotify.  Music from the hit TV series It’s a Sin, … Read more

Eighties pop is the best genre for reducing anxiety, study reveals 

Eighties pop is the best musical genre for reducing blood pressure, due to its ‘positive nostalgia’, researchers have found.   Turkish researchers hooked up 1,540 volunteers aged between 18 and 65 to blood pressure and heart rate monitors and played them a variety of music on Spotify.  Music from the hit TV series It’s a Sin, … Read more

Alec Baldwin to take on the western genre as producer and star of the film Rust

Alec Baldwin to take on the western genre as producer and star of the film Rust By Dan Heching For Dailymail.com Published: 00:11 BST, 30 May 2020 | Updated: 00:12 BST, 30 May 2020 He’s enjoyed a supremely successful career in film and television ever since exploding onto the scene over 30 years ago. And … Read more

No genre of literature offers a more colourful cast of characters than history

On Saturday, Dominic Sandbrook — one of our most eminent historians — celebrated the joys of non-fiction by paying tribute to the authors of diaries. Today, he celebrates historians. Whether it’s Edward Gibbon’s magisterial dissection of the fall of the Roman Empire or Ian Kershaw’s devastating portrait of Hitler, these works show it is only … Read more