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  Full steam ahead for Brief Encounter at the SJT

  THE Stephen Joseph Theatre's stage version of Noël Coward's buttoned-up story of forbidden love, Brief Encounter, opens tomorrow in Scarborough.

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  The Guardian

  When I Grow Up by Moya Sarner review

  A journalist and psychotherapist explores what it means to be an adult in a world that often infantilises

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  The one man who links Bob Marley, Noel Coward and Ian Fleming

  In 1964, Chris Blackwell, the founder of Island Records, was granted a first-hand insight into the distorting power of fame. Escorting the 16-year-old Millie Small to her hardscrabble Kingston home at the end of an international tour to promote her six-million-selling hit single My Boy Lollipop, Blackwell watched in horror as the singer’s own mother received her daughter “as if she were now a stranger”. “Hello, Miss Millie,” she said, curtsying. The 26-year-old Blackwell “vowed then and there th

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  Revealed: Noël Coward’s unseen plays aimed to deal with homosexuality

  Revealed: Noël Coward’s unseen plays aimed to deal with homosexuality . Playwright planned scenes on same-sex relationship at a time when it was illegal and British theatres faced strict censorship

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  Grand National 2022 tips, latest odds and best bets

  There is a growing feeling that Snow Leopardess, Court Maid or Mount Ida can end a 71-year wait for a mare to win the Grand National at Aintree on Saturday and Win My Wings did nothing to dissuade that view when she ran away with the Scottish Grand National at Ayr.

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  The Bolton News

  Brilliant writing leaves audiences on their feet at Private Lives

  WHATEVER you do, do not write Private Lives off as simply a period drama, you’ll be missing out

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  Nigel Rees accuses BBC of ‘wokery’ after resigning from Radio 4 show

  He presented his final show on Boxing Day.

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  The Telegraph

  Private Lives, review: Havers and Hodge are perfect, but which coward cut the risqué lines?

  What a beguilingly silly, slyly profound play Private Lives is, a temple to Noel Coward’s genius. It was a glittering hit when it opened at the Phoenix theatre in 1930; the author took the lead as Elyot opposite Gertrude Lawrence’s Amanda; they’re a couple five years divorced and thrown back together by the inspired circumstance of adjacent honeymoon hotel rooms on the French coast. Familiarity with the play hasn’t bred contempt. Despite many revivals, it keeps rising above cosy respectability t

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  The Guardian

  What links the Bosphorus with the Bering Strait? The Saturday quiz

  From the Kalevala to Noël Coward, test your knowledge with the Saturday quiz

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  The Guardian

  Brief Encounter review – sparkling revival of Emma Rice’s forbidden romance

  Brief Encounter review – sparkling revival of Emma Rice’s forbidden romanceWatermill theatre, NewburyPolished production brings Rice’s innovative adaptation of the classic film to life, with an electric central partnership and personality to spare Each moment is savoured … Callum McIntyre and Laura Lake Adebisi in Brief Encounter. Photograph: Pamela Raith

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