Charlie Connelly

30 April 2020

Great European Lives: Sergio Leone

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29 April 2020

How Europe helped to inspire Shakespeare

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25 April 2020

Great European Lives: Marie Tussaud

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19 April 2020

The book to transport you during lockdown

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17 April 2020

Great European Lives: French feminist and writer Simone de Beauvoir

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08 April 2020

Conrad Veidt: The unique life of one of the 20th centuries most memorable film villains

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22 March 2020

The life and death of Johan Cruyff

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21 March 2020

The seaside saga as sun sets on an era

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15 March 2020

GREAT EUROPEAN LIVES: Tamara de Lempicka

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11 March 2020

How the Spanish flu is a reminder of mankind’s vulnerability

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08 March 2020

The aviation pioneer with the balloon sized ego

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29 February 2020

GREAT EUROPEAN LIVES: André Previn

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21 February 2020

Great European Lives: Andreas Hofer

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13 February 2020

Snow, Dog, Foot: A novel about a modern-day hermit

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11 February 2020

The best literary podcasts of 2020

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11 February 2020

Martine Carole: The original Parisian bombshell

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28 January 2020

The remarkable life of film director Alexander Korda, who shaped views of Britain globally

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20 January 2020

The film pioneer that history almost forgot

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15 January 2020

The great life of astronomer Caroline Herschel, who catalogued the heavens

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09 January 2020

The fast life of De Filippis, the first woman to race in Formula One

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19 December 2019

The classical music clown who refused to be cowed

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14 December 2019

The best and worst books of 2019

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12 December 2019

The author haunted by his country’s and family’s past

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28 November 2019

The defiant Dutch writer who faced her fate with dignity

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26 November 2019

Stalin’s daughter: The story behind a stunning defection

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17 November 2019

The BBC’s War Of The Worlds reboot has arrived at the right time

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15 November 2019

The glamorous film star linked to one of history’s most mythologised murders

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11 November 2019

Great European Lives: Olga Bergholz

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04 November 2019

Finding a home in the Arctic

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04 November 2019

Miner celebrity: the real story behind Stalin’s favourite worker

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29 October 2019

Great European Lives: Georges Carpentier

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29 October 2019

How literature’s awards season descended into squabbling

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