Ask any Brit and they will most certainly know when the first started disliking That Woman. For me it was 1971 when in her first Cabinet job as Education Secretary she cut out free milk to school kids to save a few pounds and earned herself the moniker ‘Milk Snatcher’ which still sticks to her … Continue reading
J Edgar Hoover ran the FBI as his personal fiefdom with a rod of iron for almost 50 years. He used his great position of power as the nations’ lead Investigator to compile secret files on all the most powerful men (and women) in this country, and it was these files that were alleged to … Continue reading
Jimmy Gralton returned to his native Ireland in 1932 when a new Government led by Eammon de Valera took office and at last promised peace after ‘the troubles’. Gralton’s eldest brother had recently died and his elderly mother was left trying to scrape a living off the poor infertile land on the Farm that the … Continue reading
This is an old fashioned coming-out story in which a 40 year old married man and father of two finally accepts his sexuality but by trying so hard to please everyone, no-one ends up happy at all. Based on an autobiographical novel by acclaimed New Zealand novelist Witi Ihumaera (‘The Whale Rider’) that the author … Continue reading
The late great Kenneth Williams could easily be described as Britain’s own Charles Nelson Reilly. Both men were celebrated classical trained actors who worked with all the major stars of their day, but they actually found their own fame with their outrageously camp and genius comic humor which made them both much loved national treasures. … Continue reading