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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
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
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
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
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
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
There are some places you recognise before anyone tells you where they are. The canals of Venice. The pyramids of Egypt. The New York skyline. The whitewashed villages of the Greek islands. The mountains of Switzerland. We have seen them in films, photographs and television programmes so many times that they can feel strangely familiar,
There are recording sessions that run like clockwork. The musicians arrive, the producer settles everyone down, the tape starts rolling and, with a bit of luck, everybody gets home at a reasonable hour. And then there are recording sessions involving Stevie Wonder. By the mid-1980s, Stevie Wonder was already one of the biggest names in
OFF THE RECORD — THE STORIES BEHIND THE MUSIC There’s the story everyone knows. And then there’s what happened off the record. A new series of short stories, opening up the archive, with unusual stories, candid moments and rarely seen footage featuring some of the biggest names in music. The first three tories take us
RODtv has introduced a new way to explore its growing collection of music, documentaries, archive programming and original productions without committing to an ongoing subscription. The new 90-Day Pass costs £12.99 as a single payment, giving viewers access to everything on RODtv for three months. There is no automatic renewal and no monthly subscription —
Close to the Edge of Reason arrives on 25th July There are concert films. There are rock documentaries. And then there’s Close to the Edge of Reason—a film that somehow manages to become both without really trying to be either. For more than three years, filmmaker Robert Garofalo found himself travelling through the wonderfully unpredictable