Charlie Connelly

18 May 2021

Luis Ocaña: The rider who ran out of luck

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16 May 2021

The brilliance of Rónán Hession’s Panenka

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11 May 2021

The golfer who galvanised a sport

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11 May 2021

Publishing after pandemic: How the coronavirus changed reading habits

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03 May 2021

Dalida: A life ground down by tragedy

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02 May 2021

Boney’s books: Why Napoleon was history’s ultimate bookworm

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28 April 2021

Jean Bart: The ultimate swashbuckler

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23 April 2021

Dreamland: A warning from Britain’s post-Brexit future

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20 April 2021

Greta Garbo: The face that continued to fascinate

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19 April 2021

The golden age of translation

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13 April 2021

The rebel writer: Why Charles Baudelaire still resonates

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13 April 2021

Robert Doisneau – The man behind one of the world’s most famous photographs

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05 April 2021

A life striving to stay one step ahead of the Nazis

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31 March 2021

Spyridon Louis – Greece’s ultimate marathon man

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23 March 2021

Ransome the Red… literature’s most enigmatic author

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22 March 2021

The great entertainer who accepted constant presence of death

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14 March 2021

The Eastern European societies that have replaced communism

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12 March 2021

The athlete who cleared the barriers communists put in her way

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09 March 2021

The Swedish star immortalised in two of cinema’s most enduring images

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06 March 2021

Why I am changing my mind on writer’s block

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01 March 2021

Marguerite Duras – the writer sparked by a single moment

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25 February 2021

Still trapped by the siege of Sarajevo

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15 February 2021

The remarkable European life of a Police Academy star

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12 February 2021

The literary character behind Netflix’s Lupin

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11 February 2021

Why Dante still divides Italy

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11 February 2021

Simone Simon: The French actress who found herself on trial

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05 February 2021

A modern retelling of a mysterious death

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04 February 2021

The restless soul who epitomised sex, drugs and rock’n’roll

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28 January 2021

The unassuming author who shrugged off scandal and success

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28 January 2021

The remarkable story of Helga Weyhe

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24 January 2021

The magic of hotels – and what we miss about them

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24 January 2021

The self publicist surrealist who survived a brush with death from his own art

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