Marvellous Maytime musings with Blythe, Blogg and blossom eveningnews24.co.uk - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from eveningnews24.co.uk Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Sir Neville Marriner, who would have celebrated his 100th birthday this April, was a central pillar of post-war British music-making, maintaining consistency and distinction despite the shifting sands of a rapidly changing musical landscape. Richard Osborne remembers a life of collaboration and accomplishment
In The Talented Mr Ripley, Patricia Highsmith brought to life one of the most enduring antiheroes readers will come across. Above: Andrew Scott as Tom Ripley in the new adaptation.
Every nation feeds off a fantastical past, yet each fantasises in its own way. The English ways include the fantasy that the heart of England beats not in the town but in the country – and, moreover, that this rural world takes the form of a landscape, which is to say: a view from afar. For the most part, the English, particularly the middle classes, would prefer that not too many people get in the way of that view. Latterly, the English landscape has even begun to merge into “nature”, preferabl