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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 The Weekly Edition

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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The Weekly Edition Travel

See The World – How Much of it have you really seen ?

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,

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