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Doubt Over Date of Next Glastonbury Festival

Posted on 12 Aug 2020 in Lifestyle

BBC News Channel reports that founder of the Glastonbury Festival, Michael Eavis, has said that he cannot guarantee that the postponed festival will take place in 2021 either. The event this year was to have been headlined by performers including Kendrick Lamarr, Taylor Smith and ex-Beatle Paul McCartney. The heavy metal music website Kerrang! Takes up the story saying that Mr Eavis has speculated that the next iteration of the event might have to wait until 2022.

Roman Lives Explored, including Sexual Mores

Posted on 24 Jul 2020 in Lifestyle

It's History lesson time.... Dan Jones has been Walking Britain's Roman Roads for a series on the Channel Five network. Available to watch again on My5, the programme on Wednesday evening charted the Fosse Way, which ran from ancient Exeter to Lincoln. In Bath, Dan spent time visiting the anci

Documentary Looks at Legacy of "Queen" James

Posted on 15 Jul 2020 in Lifestyle

The Stuart dynasty ruled over the three kingdoms of England, Scotland and Ireland during the seventeenth century. Apologies to our friends in Wales and Cornwall, both fiercely proud of their national identities and ancient languages, but they had been more or less annexed by England in the middl

Golden TV Show Gets Week day Outing on CH5

Posted on 7 Jul 2020 in Lifestyle

Bi Icon and Socialist Great Bennett on BBC1

Posted on 29 Jun 2020 in Lifestyle

Alan Bennett is a hero both for working class northern England and as an icon of our LGBTQ rainbow community. Now eighty six years of age, Mr Bennett shows no signs of stopping his prodigious output of plays and essays.

Jun

Dame Vera Passes at 103 & Recalled with Pride

The UK 1940's Radio Station, an online radio service with a large following of people interested in jazz, swing and big band music of that most tumultuous of decades, reported on T

Dec

History Podcast Shows How the T and L Link

Making Gay History, a renowned and must listen to podcast if you are a fan of our shared LGBTQ heritage, has unearthed a previously lost recording of two iconographic early queer rights activists.

Jul

Spark Magazine Closes New Age Publishing

“The Spark” newspaper has sadly closed down.

Jul

Kylie Speaks on Her Life and Music to Radio

Heat Radio has aired an exclusive in depth interview with the Princess of Pop, and perennial favourite of LGBT people, Kylie Minogue.

Jul

Baker is An Icon - Sky Arts Profile of Star

The Sky Arts-1 Channel, broadcast on satellite and cable television platforms in the UK, looked at the amazing career of Josephine Baker on Sunday night.