The Handmaid’s Tale is based on the famous dystopian novel of the same name by the celebrated Canadian author Margaret Atwood. It tells the story of an America where the government has been overthrown by a totalitarian movement that hides behind religious dogma and is hellbent on removing women’s reproductive rights. Apparently in 1985, this …
Happily, the latest date in the commercial rip-off calendar is now behind us for another year. Valentine’s Day, which sees men clearing petrol stations of tired bunches of tulips, is at least the saviour of the floristry and chocolate industries, in the same way that Christmas accounts for the total annual sales of ceramic models …
Friday night’s Royal Northern Sinfonia concert with guest soloist Isata Kanneh-Mason was a spectacular evening of music. The eldest of the famous musical Kanneh-Mason siblings from Nottingham delighted the audience with a performance of Clara Wieck Schumann’s Piano Concerto in A minor, a work included on Isata’s chart topping album Romance: The Piano Music of …
Teesside-based Neuthread — the circular fashion trailblazer born out of autism and neurodiversity charity Daisy Chain — is just days away from its hotly anticipated debut at London Fashion Week. The National Lottery-funded brand will take centre stage at an invite-only show on Monday after the innovative work of its designers caught the eye of …
With Earth in the path of a celestial cue-ball approaching with Ronnie O’Sullivan style velocity, and the apocalypse therefore seemingly assured, what would you do? “Rush out and buy all the toilet paper I can find,” quipped one wag on Twitter (formerly X) recently. Having asked herself the question, Newcastle playwright Alison Carr came up …
Welcome all to our Friday quiz question… But first, to February 16 in years gone by. On this day, which has been surprisingly eventful over the years… 1646 The last major battle of the First English Civil War was fought at Torrington in Devon 1742 Spencer Compton, Earl of Wilmington, became British Prime Minister 1796 Colombo fell to …
Before we get into this week’s column I feel I should address the jelly-encased elephant in the room. Yes, this is the American remake of the classic and groundbreaking British comedy of the same name, which took the form of a documentary about the staff of a Slough paper sales office. The 2001 show changed …
Born in Newcastle and given his big break in Sunderland, music and tech mover and shaker Harvey Lee will always have a soft spot for the North East. It was AC/DC, fuelled by flat-cap wearing Geordie frontman Brian Johnson, who inspired the academic flop’s colourful future career. And Harvey will be hoping the region’s next …
I’ve never been good with heights. As a six-year-old (maybe seven or even eight?) I remember standing at the top of the slide at the leisure pool in Whitley Bay (Gen Z might know it as Waves), frozen to the spot and clinging onto my younger brother, all the while wailing for my mam. Kids …
One of my favourite paragraphs in last week’s QT was in the interview I did with Alison Gwynn. North East Screen’s chief exec was remembering her teenage years at The Tube. A 15-year-old Alison was a regular down at Studio Five on Friday teatimes in the early 80s when Tyne Tees Television on Newcastle’s City …
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