Sky Arts sends Garvey back to the vaults
European pay TV broadcaster Sky’s UK arts and culture channel Sky Arts has recommissioned a music documentary series fronted by Elbow frontman Guy Garvey.
Guy Garvey
Guy Garvey: From The Vaults (5X60’) will see the musician unearth rare concert and studio performances as well as revealing interviews with artists that have remained hidden for decades in broadcasting vaults, including ITV shows such as Central TV’s Revolver, Border TV’s Bliss and Tyne Tees Television’s The Tube.
Produced by Lime Pictures’ Leeds-based label Wise Owl Films, the second season will see each episode focus on a different year in rock history, covering 1978, 1980, 1983, 1985 and 1987.
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image captionBill Steel worked in TV and radio for decades
The son of broadcaster and actor Bill Steel has told how the pressure of being his sole carer pushed him to the brink of despair.
Mr Steel, 82, has Alzheimer s Disease and is receiving end-of-life care.
Christian Steel, 45, tried to take his own life after his mum Isabel died suddenly from Covid and he struggled caring for his terminally ill father. I d lost my best friend in my mum and I was watching my dad die. I thought I can t deal with this , he said.
Bill Steel played Bernard McKenna in Coronation Street in 1997 and was a presenter for Tyne Tees Television before becoming an announcer. He also voiced more than 20,000 advertisements.
Supergran actress Gudrun Ure turns 95 as we remember the hit 80s Scottish TV series
Despite being labelled a granny at the time, Goodrun was just 59 when she appeared in the series.
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Supergran actress Gudrun Ure has turned 95 and fans around the world can rejoice as they remember the hit eightiesScottish telly series from their childhood.
RUMOURS had been rife among the civil servants in London for weeks: they were going to be relocated somewhere up north, to a place beginning with D, as part of the Government’s plans to boost the economy of provincial towns. When the news was confirmed, they didn’t learn about it through Twitter, as the Treasury officials learned on Wednesday from the Chancellor that their new “economic campus” was going to be in Darlington. It was brought to the civil servants of the pensions and salaries departments of the Department of Education and Science, based in Canons Park in north London, by their staff magazine.
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