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  At last, the truth about the tangled relationship between Stanley Baxter and Kenneth Williams

  WHAT was the truth of the relationship between Stanley Baxter and Kenneth Williams? The comedy greats met in 1946 when they were both conscripted into the army.

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  Bamber Gascoigne: Cultural polymath and original University Challenge quiz master

  The multi-talented host was one of the most popular personalities on British TV thanks to 25 years on the quiz show

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  The Guardian

  Robin Le Mesurier obituary

  Other lives: Son of well-known actors who found his metier as a rock guitarist

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  TV tonight: Big Narstie is back with his beloved, brash chatshow

  TV tonight: Big Narstie is back with his beloved, brash chatshow. Idris Elba and Katherine Ryan join The Big Narstie Show. Plus: winning silliness from Richard Osman and Ted Danson. Here’s what to watch this evening

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  Why Nigella’s ‘sexy’ banter puts me off my food

  At what moment in culinary history did we reach Peak Nigella? I’d say the apex was scaled in May 2018 when a fan tweeted the chef asking: “Hi @Nigella_Lawson. My daughter, having studied your recipe books intently, is convinced you are a mad fan of cumin seeds and that they permeate your cooking. Is that correct?” To which the domestic goddess replied: “I certainly love cumin.”

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  ‘I’ll paint you a story about Jackanory…’ TV show’s art up for sale

  ‘I’ll paint you a story about Jackanory…’ TV show’s art up for sale. Lovers of the BBC story slot can recapture their childhood with illustrator’s images for Stig of the Dump and more

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  Getaway driver gets 42 years in Chicago honor student death

  The getaway driver in the 2013 fatal shooting of a high school honor student who performed during festivities before Barack Obama’s second inauguration is headed to prison

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  Benedetta review – Verhoeven’s saucy nun romance goes out with a wimple

  Benedetta review – Verhoeven’s saucy nun romance goes out with a wimpleEvil snakes, a scheming Charlotte Rampling and the Virgin Mary turned into a sex toy. So why does it all feel so chaste? Holy smoke … Daphne Patakia and Virginie Efira. Photograph: Guy Ferrandis / SBS Productions

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  Sex, swords and togas: TV’s eternal (and dodgy) fascination with ancient Rome

  Early on in Domina, Sky’s new drama about the life of the Roman Empress Livia Drusilla, there is a scene in which the 15-year-old Livia finds the future Emperor Augustus trying to force himself on her. She stops him by grabbing hold of his, ahem, imperial jewels – and the implication is that her hand will metaphorically remain there once she has married him, keeping the first ruler of the world’s greatest empire under her vice-like control. As always in dramas of Imperial Rome, sex and politics

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  'Could you marry me?': how Kenneth Williams fell for Barbara Windsor

  It was no surprise that the first wave of obituaries for Dame Barbara Windsor, who died this week at 83 following a six-year struggle with Alzheimer’s, featured images of scenes she’d shared with Kenneth Williams. They went together like boiled beef and carrots, and were no less London-flavoured than Harry Champion’s song of that name. Williams could hide it well – most of us think of him first in his posh mode – but his birthplace in Barnsbury, Islington was a walkable distance from Barbara’s f

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