I’m very comfortable with the level of ambition I have for my books,” says the ubiquitous BBC talk show host, who calls ...

Of course, best books lists are subjective ... There are many ways of reading Jock Serong’s Cherrywood (Fourth Estate), and ...

Television has lost its courage, the creator of Grange Hill said. Sir Phil Redmond, the creator of some of Britain’s ...

Launched in 2021, this brother-sister duo are on a mission to preserve Chitral’s biodiversity and heritage through a haven ...

Soap supremo Sir Phil Redmond says that “courage has gone out of broadcasting” in recent years, and suggested that TV ...

Pippi Longstocking was happily and zanily motherless; the girls in Enid Blyton’s stuffy books about boarding school led exciting lives precisely because they had escaped their mothers.

Author Jacqueline Wilson (right ... include contemporary versions of Susan Coolidge’s What Katy Did, Enid Blyton’s The Magic Faraway Tree and Nesbit’s Five Children and It, thinks the ...

Anne Cassin grew up in Balbriggan, County Dublin. She’s the eldest daughter of the late actor and director Barry Cassin.  She ...

"Prior to Grange Hill, life was (like the world of children’s author) Enid Blyton, gentle comedy, there was (school comedy) Please Sir! on ITV, which was brilliant, but very gentle, it didn’t ...