Actress and writer Michelle Terry has been named as the incoming director of Shakespeare’s Globe theatre. She said she was “so proud and excited” about her new role, describing it as “a dream come true”. Terry, who has performed at the Globe in As You Like It, A Midsummer Night’s…
With Glastonbury taking a year off in 2018, there’s already one new festival hoping to fill the mud-and-music gap. The BBC has announced plans to host The Biggest Weekend while Glasto has its traditional fallow year. The four-day festival will take place in May across four sites in England, Scotland,…
By Ola Ajayi Ibadan—A renown custodian of Yoruba culture and foremost playwright, Chief Adebayo Faleti is dead. He died at the age of 86. According to his son, Adeniyi Faleti, the poet and veteran actor, who translated the National Anthem into Yoruba died in his residence yesterday. Adebayo Faleti: passes…
Details of Peter Capaldi’s final outing in Doctor Who have been revealed as the first trailer for the Christmas special was released online. The one-minute clip for the episode, titled Twice Upon A Time, sees Capaldi and the First Doctor team up. It features the return of Pearl Mackie as…
We analysed how the body responds to stress – by making presenter Jordan Dunbar do a comedy performance. Cortisol levels from his saliva showed us how the body responds to stress.
A round-up of the film and TV events that made headlines on the second day of Comic-Con 2017. Warner Bros presents Blade Runner 2049, Justice League and Ready Player One Jared Leto showed up – via hologram and in shocking pink trousers – to introduce the Blade Runner sequel session….