How The Dig s Archie Barnes became Britain s next child star
The young actor reveals the secrets of his brilliant performance in The Dig – magic tricks, cycling scrapes, family grief and ill-timed naps
8 February 2021 • 6:00am
14-year-old Archie Barnes as Robert Pretty in Netflix s hit film about the Sutton Hoo treasure
Credit: Netflix
As anyone who has watched E.T. or The Sixth Sense will attest, one of the things that leaves a lasting impression is the question of how America finds such brilliant child actors. Yet those who have enjoyed Netflix’s marvellous film about the 1939 Sutton Hoo excavation, The Dig, won’t fail to have noticed that Britain seems to have unearthed one of its own.
11 Jan 2021
RARING TO GO: Members of the Deerbolt Singers – pictured here at a performance in Barnard Castle Methodist Church with the late John Lowles – can’t wait to start singing again
Among the many events missing from this winter’s calendar was the annual concert by the Deerbolt Singers, a group which can trace its roots back almost 50 years. Despite having fallen quiet during the Covid pandemic, choir stalwart Gill Gibson says the singers can’t wait to bounce back with renewed vigour.
THE Deerbolt Singers began life as an all-male choir formed by conductor Ron Ward for prison officers in 1972.
A POTTERY and painting art exhibition offers a chance to grab some unique Christmas gifts made by local artists. Ceramicist Clare Owen and wildlife and pet painter Nandi Ablett are hosting the exhibition on Saturday December 12, and Sunday 13 and January 9 and 10, 2021 at 42 Little Wittenham Road. The show will be held in Ms Owen s well ventilated studio in her garden and hand sanitiser will be provided. The artists will be donating some of the profits made from the show to local charities. Ms Owen has lived in Little and Long Wittenham since 1986, but before that she lived in Greece for many years and it was there that she started collecting pottery in a small way, mostly decorated plates.