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The Clarkson Effect, Part Two: From Health Scare to All Clear

Last week, Clarkson’s Farm did something few streaming shows ever achieve. It got people talking about their health.Not the weather. Not politics. Not celebrity gossip. Not even farming. Health. The latest episodes of Amazon’s unlikely hit series revealed Jeremy Clarkson’s health scare, showing viewers a side of Britain’s most outspoken television personality that rarely makes

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The Weekly Edition Travel

Christmas in the Canadian Rockies: A Journey Aboard the Rocky Mountaineer

Snow-covered mountains, frozen rivers, a little railway luxury and an unexpected visit from Santa Claus. Natalie R travels from Vancouver through the Canadian Rockies to Banff, discovering why winter might just be the most beautiful time to see western Canada. By Natalie R. | Travel & Experiences | The Classic Post There are few better

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Music The Weekly Edition

Alexis Korner: The Man Who Started It All (And Let Everyone Else Become Famous)

The Rolling Stones, Cream, Led Zeppelin and a sizeable chunk of British rock music owe something to Alexis Korner. So why isn’t his name quite as familiar as theirs? By Samuel H. | Music & Culture | The Classic Post There’s a peculiar tradition in the music business. The person who gets everyone started is

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Events The Weekly Edition

Apollo 13: The Moon Mission That Almost Never Came Home

In April 1970, three astronauts set out for the Moon. Two days later, an explosion turned their mission into one of the most extraordinary rescue operations in the history of space exploration. On 11 April 1970, Apollo 13 lifted off from Kennedy Space Center in Florida. On board were Commander Jim Lovell, Command Module Pilot

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Music The Weekly Edition

The Night Stevie Wonder Kept Gladys Knight Waiting

One of the biggest hits of the 1980s brought together four extraordinary performers. But as Gladys Knight recalls in a newly released episode of Off The Record, getting everyone into the recording studio was quite another matter. In 1985, Dionne Warwick, Gladys Knight, Elton John and Stevie Wonder came together to record That’s What Friends

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Music

You Are My Song: Darren Day Joins the FASD Choir

A charity recording brought a West End performer together with young singers to help more people understand Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder. You Are My Song is now available to watch on RODtv. When Darren Day agreed to sing on You Are My Song, he was lending his voice to a cause he was only beginning

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Major Tony Hibbert: The Mistakes They Made at Arnhem

In September 1944, Major Tony Hibbert landed in Holland as Brigade Major of the 1st Parachute Brigade. He was 26 years old. What followed was one of the most famous airborne operations of the Second World War — an attempt to seize a series of bridges through Holland and open a route into Germany. For

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The Weekly Edition Travel

Petra: The City Hidden in the Rock

There are some famous places where the photograph has done most of the work for you. You arrive, recognise the view, take your own version of the same picture and move on. Petra isn’t quite like that. Part of the reason is that it makes you work for the introduction. The ancient city in southern

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Lifestyle Streaming

Halloween: There’s Something at the Window

There is a particular pleasure in getting the house ready for Halloween. A pumpkin by the door, a few decorations, the lights turned down, and suddenly an ordinary room starts to feel rather different. Even people who have no intention of dressing up can usually be persuaded to join in, especially if someone else is

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Music

Bill Wyman: Life Outside The Rolling Stones

For more than thirty years, Bill Wyman had one of the most recognisable jobs in rock music. He was the bass player in The Rolling Stones. From the early clubs of the 1960s through stadium tours and some of the biggest records in rock history, Wyman was there — usually standing rather more still than

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Lifestyle

The Scream: The Painting That Still Stops You in Your Tracks

There are paintings you admire for the skill of the artist. And then there are paintings that seem to get inside your head. The Scream is one of them. Created by Norwegian artist Edvard Munch, the image has become so familiar that it’s easy to forget just how strange and unsettling it must once have

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